The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
BORIS PASTERNAKArt 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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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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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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If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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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 have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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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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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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