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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Boris Pasternak

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Artist Discover Himself
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
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
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
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
But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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Conscience Embrace Fear Live
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Growth History Man Sight
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
The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Arm Naked One Liner Power Truth
If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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Change Figure Life Principle
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
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Born Life Live Man Preparation
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
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Blade Creation Poetry Rich Tears
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
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Happiness Share
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Forever I Love You One Liner Sanity Wild

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