She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
BORIS PASTERNAKAnd 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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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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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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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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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.
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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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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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