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

Boris Pasternak

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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Adventure Greatness Hero Madness Woman
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
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 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
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Beyond Country Death Equality Myself
I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Happiness Share
We must discover security within ourselves.
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Discover Ourselves Security
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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Alone Isolation Moments Woman
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Moments Oneself
Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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Finding Herself Move Stand Stop
I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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Beautiful Fall Myself People Reveal Value Virtue
During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Deep Life Meaning Symbol
He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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