I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
BORIS PASTERNAKThe most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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