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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

In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
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Age Change Discover Existence Guest Ourselves Science Security Travel War World
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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Genuine Happiness Life Share
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Beyond Country Death Equality Myself
We must discover security within ourselves.
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Discover Ourselves Security
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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Art Beautiful Existence Joy Key Organic Serve
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Growth History Man Sight
We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Deep Forever One Liner Prison Time
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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Compassionate Feeling Object Ourselves Strong Victim
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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Hate Love 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
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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Calm Myself Reach Religious Stand World
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Artist Discover Himself
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Faith Form Liberty Loyalty Lying
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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Beautiful Fall Myself People Reveal Value Virtue
It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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Burn Candle Deep Snow World
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

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

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