We must discover security within ourselves.
BORIS PASTERNAKIf you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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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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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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