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.
BORIS PASTERNAKAs 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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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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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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for 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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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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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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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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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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