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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.

Boris Pasternak

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
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
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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Best Complication Expression Lyrics Poetry Possible Value
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
But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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Conscience Embrace Fear Live
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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Fools Generation Himself Talk Truth
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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Easy Great Heart Knock Life Missing Moments Yourself
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Enough Hate Kill Myself Yourself
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Experience Notice People Remark
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Alive Hurt Thinking
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
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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Adventure Greatness Hero Madness Woman
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Earth Enchant Herself Magic Wild
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
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Astonish Gratitude Proud Touch
You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Forever Myself Prison Yourself

I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.

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