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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.

Boris Pasternak

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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Age Change Discover Existence Guest Ourselves Science Security Travel War World
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Artist Discover Himself
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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Fate Feeling Heart Myself Sensitive
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
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
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
I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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Boredom Complication Death Impression Need
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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Erupt Explosion Myself Understand Wonderful World
Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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Art Interest Moments Power
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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Art Constant Creation Life Meditation Resemble
The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Arm Naked One Liner Power Truth
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Faith Form Liberty Loyalty Lying
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Gift Greatness Life Ourselves
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Moments Oneself
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
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Compassionate Feeling Object Ourselves Strong Victim
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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Break Enough Seek Solitary Truth

Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.

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