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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

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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Modern Paint Rare Translation Writing
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Experience Notice People Remark
We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Deep Forever One Liner Prison Time
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
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
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
He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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Art Death Life Meditation Occupation Realization
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
I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
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Discussion Necessary Poetry Simplicity Talk
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy
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
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Growth History Man Sight
The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Arm Naked One Liner Power Truth
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
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.
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Genuine Happiness Life Share
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Gift Greatness Life Ourselves

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