Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
BORIS PASTERNAKPoetry 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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Art 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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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 was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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