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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

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
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Born Life Live Man Preparation
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
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Blade Creation Poetry Rich Tears
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
He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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Existence Himself Inheritance Love People Remember
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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Fate Feeling Heart Myself Sensitive
They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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Hate Love Yourself
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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Disappoint Greatness Life Mom
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Gift Greatness Life Ourselves
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Enough Hate Kill Myself Yourself
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Forever I Love You One Liner Sanity Wild
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Astonish Gratitude Proud Touch
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Artist Discover Himself
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
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy
I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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Beautiful Fall Myself People Reveal Value Virtue

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