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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

Boris Pasternak

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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Himself Modern Society Survival Writing
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
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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Beautiful Fall Myself People Reveal Value Virtue
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
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
Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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Finding Herself Move Stand Stop
You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Forever Myself Prison Yourself
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Beyond Country Death Equality Myself
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Happiness Share
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
That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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Funny Myself Science Stomach
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
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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Enough Life Order Truth
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
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Astonish Gratitude Proud Touch

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

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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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