We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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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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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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 is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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