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.
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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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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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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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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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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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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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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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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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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