Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
BORIS PASTERNAK
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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