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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Boris Pasternak

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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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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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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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