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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.

Boris Pasternak

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
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
We must discover security within ourselves.
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Discover Ourselves Security
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
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Forever I Love You One Liner Sanity Wild
No bad man can be a good poet.
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Bad Goodness Man One Liner Poet
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
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Compassionate Feeling Object Ourselves Strong Victim
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Astonish Gratitude Proud Touch
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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Establishment Ignorance Man Myth Power
You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
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Arms Beautiful Bold Draw Fall Gift Goodness Togetherness Yourself
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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Man Power Resist Truth
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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Art Death Life Meditation Occupation Realization
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Growth History Man Sight
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Experience Notice People Remark
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Artist Discover Himself
You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Forever Myself Prison Yourself

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