What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

BORIS PASTERNAK

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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

Boris Pasternak

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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.

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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
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Arms Bold Draw
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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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 Object
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Object
We must discover security within ourselves.

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We must discover security within ourselves.
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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.

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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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Figure
Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.

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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.

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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.

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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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Sacred
Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.

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Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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Move
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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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 Translation
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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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 Torture
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.

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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Oneself
Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.

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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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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 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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Organic Serve

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