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.
From Boris Pasternak
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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.
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.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
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.
You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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