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"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."

Boris Pasternak, Russian Novelist
Forbidden, Metaphysics
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"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."

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"No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim."
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"No bad man can be a good poet."
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"Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life."
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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."
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"In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will."
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"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."
Life, Beauty, People, Virtue
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"I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies."
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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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"As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world."
World,
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"Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it."
Love, Marriage, Weakness

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"Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know."

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"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."

Boris Pasternak, Russian Novelist
Forbidden, Metaphysics
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