No bad man can be a good poet.
BORIS PASTERNAKThe 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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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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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I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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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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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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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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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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