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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.

Boris Pasternak

I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Enough Hate Kill Myself Yourself
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Born Life Live Man Preparation
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Alive Hurt Thinking
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Moments Oneself
Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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Act End Escape Hypocrisy One Liner Order Planning
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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Deserve Immortal Life Loyalty Strong World
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
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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Establishment Ignorance Man Myth Power
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Deep Life Meaning Symbol
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
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 used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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Character Force Goodness Myself Revolution Thinking
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Happiness Share
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
No bad man can be a good poet.
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Bad Goodness Man One Liner Poet
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Experience Notice People Remark

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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