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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

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
We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Deep Forever One Liner Prison Time
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Happiness Share
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
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
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Growth History Man Sight
How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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Deserve Immortal Life Loyalty Strong World
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
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Gift Greatness Life Ourselves
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
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Faith Form Liberty Loyalty Lying
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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Adventure Greatness Hero Madness Woman
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
You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Forever Myself Prison 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

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