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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

He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy
Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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Art Interest Moments Power
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Enough Hate Kill Myself Yourself
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
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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Earth Freedom Love People Thinking Unique
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Gift Greatness Life Ourselves
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Alive Hurt Thinking
If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
BORIS PASTERNAK

Change Figure Life Principle
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
BORIS PASTERNAK

Beyond Country Death Equality Myself
During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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Existence Life Literature Poetry Stop
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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Alone Isolation Moments Woman
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
BORIS PASTERNAK

Disappoint Greatness Life Mom
Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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Art Risk Sacrifice Spiritual Thinking
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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Best Complication Expression Lyrics Poetry Possible Value
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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Believe Cruelty Grave Light Spirit Time
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.
BORIS PASTERNAK

Genuine Happiness Life Share

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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