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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

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
Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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Act End Escape Hypocrisy One Liner Order Planning
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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Break Enough Seek Solitary Truth
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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Earth Freedom Love People Thinking Unique
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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Act Circumstance Hope Misfortune Remember
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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Hate Love Yourself
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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Believe Cruelty Grave Light Spirit Time
And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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Fate Feeling Heart Myself Sensitive
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Artist Discover Himself
Failure to love is almost like murder.
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Death Failure Love Murder One Liner
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Experience Notice People Remark
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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Death Life Lose Necessary
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Astonish Gratitude Proud Touch
If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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Deep Electricity Love Pain Woman
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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