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

Boris Pasternak

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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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Accustom Division Healing Sorrow Torture Wound
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Astonish Gratitude Proud Touch
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Deep Life Meaning Symbol
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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Love Marriage Sacred Weakness
We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Deep Forever One Liner Prison Time
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Faith Form Liberty Loyalty Lying
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Enough Hate Kill Myself Yourself
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy
Failure to love is almost like murder.
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Death Failure Love Murder One Liner
A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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Angel Flame Shadow Temptation
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
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
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
We must discover security within ourselves.
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Discover Ourselves Security
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

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