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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

Boris Pasternak

I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Enough Hate Kill Myself Yourself
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Faith Form Liberty Loyalty Lying
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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Genuine Happiness Life Share
During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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Existence Life Literature Poetry Stop
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
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Blade Creation Poetry Rich Tears
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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Erupt Explosion Myself Understand Wonderful World
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
Failure to love is almost like murder.
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Death Failure Love Murder One Liner
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Forever I Love You One Liner Sanity Wild
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Moments Oneself
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
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
We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Deep Forever One Liner Prison Time
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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Easy Great Heart Knock Life Missing Moments Yourself
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
The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Arm Naked One Liner Power Truth

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