She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
BORIS PASTERNAKHow wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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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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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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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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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 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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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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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 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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