We must discover security within ourselves.
BORIS PASTERNAKWhat for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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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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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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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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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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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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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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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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