I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
BORIS PASTERNAKThey 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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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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