Quote by Boris Pasternak
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates o

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. – Boris Pasternak

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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destructions path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together. – Boris Pasternak

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Beauty
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. – Boris Pasternak

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alone
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I dont like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isnt of much value. Life hasnt revealed its beauty to them. – Boris Pasternak

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Death
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Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of ones lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning and life at that price is not worth living. – Gilbert Parker

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Death

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Death

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but its such a big thing that you cant. – Damien Hirst

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Death

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. – Thomas Mann

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Death

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Sleep… Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death. – Author unknown, various wordings commonly attributed to Henry Wadsworth Longfell

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