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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.

Boris Pasternak

I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Forever I Love You One Liner Sanity Wild
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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Modern Paint Rare Translation Writing
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
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
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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Discussion Necessary Poetry Simplicity Talk
You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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Heaven Kissing Myself Teaching
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
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
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Faith Form Liberty Loyalty Lying
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
But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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Conscience Embrace Fear Live
The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Arm Naked One Liner Power Truth
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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Break Enough Seek Solitary Truth
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Happiness Share
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Artist Discover Himself

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