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In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.

Boris Pasternak

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Born Life Live Man Preparation
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Moments Oneself
You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Forever Myself Prison Yourself
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Experience Notice People Remark
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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Art Discover Extraordinary Literature People Word
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
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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Alone Isolation Moments Woman
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
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
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Blade Creation Poetry Rich Tears
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Beyond Country Death Equality Myself
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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Himself Natural Tragedy
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
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Deep Life Meaning Symbol
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
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object

In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.

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In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.

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