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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.

Boris Pasternak

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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Deep Electricity Love Pain Woman
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
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
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Forever I Love You One Liner Sanity Wild
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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Disappoint Greatness Life Mom
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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Establishment Ignorance Man Myth Power
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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Hate Love Yourself
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Enough Hate Kill Myself Yourself
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
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Moments Oneself
We must discover security within ourselves.
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Discover Ourselves Security
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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Earth Freedom Love People Thinking Unique
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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Art Death Life Meditation Occupation Realization
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
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Growth History Man Sight

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