Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
BORIS PASTERNAKIn 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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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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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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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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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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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