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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Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common round, has crumbled into dust and been swept away in the general upheaval and reorganization of the whole of society.Boris Pasternak
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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