black
grey
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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?

Boris Pasternak

In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
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Age Change Discover Existence Guest Ourselves Science Security Travel War World
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Experience Notice People Remark
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy
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
The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Arm Naked One Liner Power Truth
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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Fools Generation Himself Talk Truth
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
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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Burn Candle Deep Snow World
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
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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Finding Herself Move Stand Stop
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
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Happiness Share
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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Erupt Explosion Myself Understand Wonderful World
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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Adventure Greatness Hero Madness Woman
But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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Accustom Division Healing Sorrow Torture Wound

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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