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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.

Boris Pasternak

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Artist Discover Himself
And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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Fate Feeling Heart Myself Sensitive
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
During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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Existence Life Literature Poetry Stop
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Astonish Gratitude Proud Touch
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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Art Constant Creation Life Meditation Resemble
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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Death Life Lose Necessary
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
Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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Finding Herself Move Stand Stop
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Beyond Country Death Equality Myself
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Enough Hate Kill Myself Yourself
How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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Deserve Immortal Life Loyalty Strong World
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
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
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

He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.

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