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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

Boris Pasternak

Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Experience Notice People Remark
We must discover security within ourselves.
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Discover Ourselves Security
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
During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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Existence Life Literature Poetry Stop
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
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Deep Life Meaning Symbol
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
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Moments Oneself
But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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Accustom Division Healing Sorrow Torture Wound
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
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
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
No bad man can be a good poet.
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Bad Goodness Man One Liner Poet
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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Modern Paint Rare Translation Writing
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Born Life Live Man Preparation

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

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