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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

Boris Pasternak

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Astonish Gratitude Proud Touch
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
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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Freedom Light Myself People
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
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Happiness Share
You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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Heaven Kissing Myself Teaching
That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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Funny Myself Science Stomach
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Artist Discover Himself
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
You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Forever Myself Prison Yourself
No bad man can be a good poet.
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Bad Goodness Man One Liner Poet
It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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Burn Candle Deep Snow World
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
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Experience Notice People Remark
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
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

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