"We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity."
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"And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness."
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"But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound."
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"If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself."
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"A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime."
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"I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness."
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"We must discover security within ourselves."
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"I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me."
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"No bad man can be a good poet."
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"Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death."
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"The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable."
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"I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field."
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"In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves."
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"Here they are, all in one place. Circle back to them when you need some poetic shine. It is not revolutions and upheavals that clear the road to better days, but revelations, and lavishness of someone's soul inspired, and ablaze."
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"She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments."
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"... the unarmed power of naked truth."
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"But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the world?" = MEETING ="
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"But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?"
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"During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped."
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"Mother Russia is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop."
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