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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

Boris Pasternak

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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Man Power Resist Truth
We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Deep Forever One Liner Prison Time
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Deep Life Meaning Symbol
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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Believe Cruelty Grave Light Spirit Time
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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Character Force Goodness Myself Revolution Thinking
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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Modern Paint Rare Translation Writing
You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Forever Myself Prison Yourself
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
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Compassionate Feeling Object Ourselves Strong Victim
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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Heaven Kissing Myself Teaching
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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Fools Generation Himself Talk Truth
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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Calm Myself Reach Religious Stand World
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Astonish Gratitude Proud Touch
Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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Art Interest Moments Power
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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Cold Life Ourselves Secret Stream Suffering Warm
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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Existence Himself Inheritance Love People Remember

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