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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

Boris Pasternak

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
BORIS PASTERNAK

Art Death Life Meditation Occupation Realization
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Artist Discover Himself
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Growth History Man Sight
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
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Enough Hate Kill Myself Yourself
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
And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Genuine Happiness Life Share
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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Believe Cruelty Grave Light Spirit Time
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
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
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Happiness Share
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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Establishment Ignorance Man Myth Power
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Astonish Gratitude Proud Touch
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
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Deep Life Meaning Symbol
I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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Character Force Goodness Myself Revolution Thinking

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