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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Boris Pasternak

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
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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Angel Flame Shadow Temptation
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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Man Power Resist Truth
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Beyond Country Death Equality Myself
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Growth History Man Sight
We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Deep Forever One Liner Prison Time
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Enough Hate Kill Myself Yourself
The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Arm Naked One Liner Power Truth
That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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Funny Myself Science Stomach
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
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Born Life Live Man Preparation
But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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Conscience Embrace Fear Live
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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Change Figure Life Principle
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
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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Art Constant Creation Life Meditation Resemble
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy

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