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We must discover security within ourselves.

Boris Pasternak

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
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Alive Hurt Thinking
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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Erupt Explosion Myself Understand Wonderful World
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
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Faith Form Liberty Loyalty Lying
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy
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
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Artist Discover Himself
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 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
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Astonish Gratitude Proud Touch
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Earth Enchant Herself Magic Wild
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
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Happiness Share

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