Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Quote by Boris Pasternak

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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass...

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass...

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary...

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary...

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of...

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of...

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always...

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always...

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will...

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will...

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your...

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your...

Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering....

Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering....

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you...

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you...

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though...

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though...

No bad man can be a good poet.

No bad man can be a good poet.

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and...

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and...

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life...

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life...

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life...

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life...

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and...

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and...

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I...

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I...

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in...

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in...

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible...

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible...

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of...

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of...