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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.

Boris Pasternak

The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Moments Oneself
But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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Conscience Embrace Fear Live
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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Death Life Lose Necessary
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy
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
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
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
The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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Calm Myself Reach Religious Stand World
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Gift Greatness Life Ourselves
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
If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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Change Figure Life Principle
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Deep Life Meaning Symbol
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Happiness Share
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Faith Form Liberty Loyalty Lying
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Earth Enchant Herself Magic Wild
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

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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