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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

Boris Pasternak

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
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
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
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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Deserve Immortal Life Loyalty Strong World
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
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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Love Marriage Sacred Weakness
Failure to love is almost like murder.
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Death Failure Love Murder One Liner
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy
If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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Deep Electricity Love Pain Woman
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Deep Life Meaning Symbol
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 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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Himself Modern Society Survival Writing
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
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
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Happiness Share
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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Heaven Kissing Myself Teaching

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

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