We must discover security within ourselves.
BORIS PASTERNAKOnly the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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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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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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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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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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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 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 remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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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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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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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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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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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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