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"I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish." - Lara, from Doctor Zhivago"
"I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it."
"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."
"An unshared happiness is not happiness."
"I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely."
"It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose."
"It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if you can´t place him in a category, it means that at least a part of him is what a human being ought to be. He has risen above himself, he has a grain of immortality."
"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."
"Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life."
"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."
"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."
"Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs."
"What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels."
"Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy."
"He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for."
"As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world."
"Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept away in the general upheaval and reorganization of the whole of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the bare, shivering human soul, stripped to the last shred, the naked force of the human psyche for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself."
"Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently"
"And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune."
"I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom."