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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

Boris Pasternak

I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Forever I Love You One Liner Sanity Wild
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
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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Art Discover Extraordinary Literature People Word
Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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Art Risk Sacrifice Spiritual Thinking
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Artist Discover Himself
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
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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Man Power Resist Truth
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Alive Hurt Thinking
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
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Happiness Share
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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Act End Escape Hypocrisy One Liner Order Planning
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
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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Existence Himself Inheritance Love People Remember
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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Love Marriage Sacred Weakness
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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Act Circumstance Hope Misfortune Remember

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

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