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

Boris Pasternak

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
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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Art Beautiful Existence Joy Key Organic Serve
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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Enough Life Order Truth
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
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
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
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
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
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
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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Himself Modern Society Survival Writing
I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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Boredom Complication Death Impression Need
We must discover security within ourselves.
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Discover Ourselves Security
The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Arm Naked One Liner Power Truth
Failure to love is almost like murder.
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Death Failure Love Murder One Liner
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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