The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
BORIS PASTERNAKMother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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 is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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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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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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