At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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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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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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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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 come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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