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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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.Boris Pasternak
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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Yet in the cowbarn life is burbling, steaming,
And the tines of pitchforks simply glow with health.
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