Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
BORIS PASTERNAK
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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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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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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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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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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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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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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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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