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

Boris Pasternak

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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Genuine Happiness Life Share
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Faith Form Liberty Loyalty Lying
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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Change Figure Life Principle
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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Establishment Ignorance Man Myth Power
We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Deep Forever One Liner Prison Time
He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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Art Death Life Meditation Occupation Realization
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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Freedom Light Myself People
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Artist Discover Himself
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Enough Hate Kill Myself Yourself
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 are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Forever Myself Prison Yourself
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Deep Life Meaning Symbol
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
But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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Conscience Embrace Fear Live
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

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