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.
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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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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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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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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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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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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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