In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
BORIS PASTERNAKEven 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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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
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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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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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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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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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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