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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

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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Love Marriage Sacred Weakness
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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Death Life Lose Necessary
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
The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Arm Naked One Liner Power Truth
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
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
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
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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Disappoint Greatness Life Mom
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Earth Enchant Herself Magic Wild
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Growth History Man Sight
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 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
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Deep Life Meaning Symbol
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
Failure to love is almost like murder.
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Death Failure Love Murder One Liner
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

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