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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.

Boris Pasternak

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
You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Forever Myself Prison Yourself
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
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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Love Marriage Sacred Weakness
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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Death Life Lose Necessary
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
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
The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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Calm Myself Reach Religious Stand World
A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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Angel Flame Shadow Temptation
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Deep Life Meaning Symbol
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Forever I Love You One Liner Sanity Wild
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
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
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Born Life Live Man Preparation

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