Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
BORIS PASTERNAKA corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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