Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
BORIS PASTERNAKYou fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
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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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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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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Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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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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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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