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

Boris Pasternak

He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy
The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Arm Naked One Liner Power Truth
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
I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
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Discussion Necessary Poetry Simplicity Talk
Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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Art Interest Moments Power
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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Cold Life Ourselves Secret Stream Suffering Warm
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 Healing Sorrow Torture Wound
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Moments Oneself
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
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Alive Hurt Thinking
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
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
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Experience Notice People Remark
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
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object

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