If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
BORIS PASTERNAKIn every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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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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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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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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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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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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