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

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When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.

Boris Pasternak

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

All Time, Captives, Eternity, Hostage, Hostages

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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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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.

Art, Creating, Creating Life, Death, Meditating, Vividly

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.

Greatness, Homeless, Like, Memories, Memory, Years

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

Embrace, Inspirational, Life, Ordered, Truth

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.

Absorb, Electricity, Inspire, Painful, Woman

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I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I'm not just a clam, or a ham, or a dusty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am - that's a great thing to be!

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Saffron Burrows

When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.

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Peter Coyote

Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.

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Michael Eisner

Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric.

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Maxwell Maltz

One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.

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