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.
BORIS PASTERNAKWe must discover security within ourselves.
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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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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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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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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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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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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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