An unshared happiness is not happiness.
BORIS PASTERNAKWhen 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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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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