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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Boris Pasternak

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
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Forever I Love You One Liner Sanity Wild
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
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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Genuine Happiness Life Share
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
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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Believe Cruelty Grave Light Spirit Time
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Beyond Country Death Equality Myself
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

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