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.
BORIS PASTERNAKMost people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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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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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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