What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
BORIS PASTERNAKAs in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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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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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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