Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
BORIS PASTERNAKArt has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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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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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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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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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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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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