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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.

— Boris Pasternak

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They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Solovyov or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth.

Doctor Zhivago (1957)

The idea that underlies this is that communion between mortals is immortal, and that the whole of life is symbolic because it is meaningful.

Doctor Zhivago (1957)

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

Bridges to Infinity : The Human Side of Mathematics (1983)

Don't sleep, don't sleep, artist,
Don't give in to sleep.
You are eternity's hostage
A captive of time.

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