She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
BORIS PASTERNAKAnd remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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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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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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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.
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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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And 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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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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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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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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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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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