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Oh, how one wishes sometimes ...

Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!

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When a great moment knocks on...

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

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I don't like purely philosoph...

I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish." - Lara, from Doctor Zhivago

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It?s a good thing when a man ...

It?s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn?t a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if you can?t place him in a category, it means that at least a part of him is what a human being ought to be. He has risen above himself, he has a grain of immortality.

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How many things in the world ...

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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I think that if the beast who...

I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrificed himself.... What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

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No single man makes history. ...

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to confine themselves to a limited field. They overturn the old order in a few hours or days, the whole upheaval takes a few weeks or at most years, but the fanatical spirit that inspired the upheavals is worshiped for decades thereafter, for centuries.

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Departure beyond the borders ...

Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.

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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied...

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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We're all time's captives, ho...

We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.

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I used to be very revolutiona...

I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.

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February. Get ink, shed tears...

February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring. Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas, Race through the noice of bells and wheels To where the ink and all you grieving Are muffled when the rainshower falls. To where, like pears burnt black as charcoal, A myriad rooks, plucked from the trees, Fall down into the puddles, hurl Dry sadness deep into the eyes. Below, the wet black earth shows through, With sudden cries the wind is pitted, The more haphazard, the more true The poetry that sobs its heart out.

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Mother Russia is on the move,...

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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At the moment of childbirth, e...

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

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Love is not weakness. It is st...

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

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Literature is the art of disco...

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

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You fall into my arms. You are...

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.

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I don't like people who have n...

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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You fall into my arms. / You a...

You fall into my arms. / You are the good gift of destruction's path, / When life sickens more than disease / And boldness is the root of beauty- / Which draws us together.

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Art has two constant, two unen...

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

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