He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always … - Boris Pasternak

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Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.

Boris Pasternak

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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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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You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with - at the end of it, you and I are just as stripped and homeless. And you and I are the last remembrance of all that immeasurable greatness which has been created in all the thousands of years between their time and ours, and it is in memory of all that vanished splendour that we live and love and weep and cling to one another.

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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

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