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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.

Boris Pasternak

You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Forever Myself Prison Yourself
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Artist Discover Himself
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
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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Alone Isolation Moments Woman
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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Cold Life Ourselves Secret Stream Suffering Warm
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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Deep Electricity Love Pain Woman
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Experience Notice People Remark
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
Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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Art Interest Moments Power
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Growth History Man Sight
I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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Freedom Light Myself People
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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Adventure Greatness Hero Madness Woman
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
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy
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
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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Fools Generation Himself Talk Truth

That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.

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