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An unshared happiness is not happiness.

Boris Pasternak

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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Death Life Lose Necessary
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Astonish Gratitude Proud Touch
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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Break Enough Seek Solitary Truth
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
I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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Beautiful Fall Myself People Reveal Value Virtue
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Deep Life Meaning Symbol
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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Best Complication Expression Lyrics Poetry Possible Value
You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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Heaven Kissing Myself Teaching
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Experience Notice People Remark
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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Enough Life Order Truth
Failure to love is almost like murder.
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Death Failure Love Murder One Liner
The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Arm Naked One Liner Power Truth
But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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Accustom Division Healing Sorrow Torture Wound
You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Forever Myself Prison Yourself
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Beyond Country Death Equality Myself
But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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Conscience Embrace Fear Live

An unshared happiness is not happiness.

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