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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about

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

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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings. – Boris Pasternak

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Translation
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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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Death
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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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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. – William Blake

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Were going to shoot one Polaroid per show. Im going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, its worth a fortune. Ill make this a work of magic warlock art. – Charlie Sheen

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Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. – Edmond & Jules de Goncourt

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While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite. – Eric Butterworth

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