An unshared happiness is not happiness.
BORIS PASTERNAKYou 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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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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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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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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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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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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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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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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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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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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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