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

Boris Pasternak

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Faith Form Liberty Loyalty Lying
It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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Burn Candle Deep Snow World
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
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
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
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Gift Greatness Life Ourselves
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
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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Deserve Immortal Life Loyalty Strong World
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
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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Art Beautiful Existence Joy Key Organic Serve
Failure to love is almost like murder.
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Death Failure Love Murder One Liner
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
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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Establishment Ignorance Man Myth Power
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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Break Enough Seek Solitary Truth

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

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