All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
BORIS PASTERNAKOh, 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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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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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If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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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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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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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