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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

Boris Pasternak

An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Happiness Share
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
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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Earth Freedom Love People Thinking Unique
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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Modern Paint Rare Translation Writing
But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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Conscience Embrace Fear Live
The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Arm Naked One Liner Power Truth
The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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Calm Myself Reach Religious Stand World
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy
Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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Art Risk Sacrifice Spiritual Thinking
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Alive Hurt Thinking
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
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Artist Discover Himself
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Moments Oneself
If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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Deep Electricity Love Pain Woman
Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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Cold Life Ourselves Secret Stream Suffering Warm
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

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