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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.

Boris Pasternak

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
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
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Earth Enchant Herself Magic Wild
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Born Life Live Man Preparation
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy
It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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Burn Candle Deep Snow World
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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Disappoint Greatness Life Mom
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Alive Hurt Thinking
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
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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Art Discover Extraordinary Literature People Word
I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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Beautiful Fall Myself People Reveal Value Virtue
The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Arm Naked One Liner Power Truth
In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
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Age Change Discover Existence Guest Ourselves Science Security Travel War World
We must discover security within ourselves.
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Discover Ourselves Security
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Deep Life Meaning Symbol

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