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Failure to love is almost like murder.

Boris Pasternak

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Astonish Gratitude Proud Touch
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
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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Blade Creation Poetry Rich Tears
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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Change Figure Life Principle
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
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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Act End Escape Hypocrisy One Liner Order Planning
Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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Art Risk Sacrifice Spiritual Thinking
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy
I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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Freedom Light Myself People
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Earth Enchant Herself Magic Wild
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
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Experience Notice People Remark
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Beyond Country Death Equality Myself
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
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object

Failure to love is almost like murder.

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