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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

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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Believe Cruelty Grave Light Spirit Time
We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Deep Forever One Liner Prison Time
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Experience Notice People Remark
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Alive Hurt Thinking
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
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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Angel Flame Shadow Temptation
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
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Born Life Live Man Preparation
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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Easy Great Heart Knock Life Missing Moments Yourself
Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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Earth Freedom Love People Thinking Unique
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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Arms Beautiful Bold Draw Fall Gift Goodness Togetherness Yourself
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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Act Circumstance Hope Misfortune Remember
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Enough Hate Kill Myself Yourself
He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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Art Death Life Meditation Occupation Realization
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Artist Discover Himself

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

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