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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.

Boris Pasternak

How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Alive Hurt Thinking
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Beyond Country Death Equality Myself
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 Beautiful Existence Joy Key Organic Serve
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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Himself Modern Society Survival Writing
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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Discussion Necessary Poetry Simplicity Talk
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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Best Complication Expression Lyrics Poetry Possible Value
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Growth History Man Sight
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Gift Greatness Life Ourselves
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Happiness Share
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Enough Hate Kill Myself Yourself
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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Love Marriage Sacred Weakness
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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Hate Love Yourself
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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Accustom Division Healing Sorrow Torture Wound
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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Erupt Explosion Myself Understand Wonderful World

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