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	<title>In a Nutshell &#187; Pasternak</title>
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		<title>Life is meant for living</title>
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Source: http://www.jettobox.com/
 
 
Pontificating
 
 
Remembering is another form of suffering.  Remembering that success is a journey, not a destination, what shall I have in mind?  The past, the present, or the future?  Keep your eyes on the goals.  There have not been set yet.  That is the worst part – I don’t know what exactly I want, but [...]]]></description>
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<p> </p>
<h1>Pontificating</h1>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Remembering is another form of suffering.  Remembering that success is a journey, not a destination, what shall I have in mind?  The past, the present, or the future?  Keep your eyes on the goals.  There have not been set yet.  That is the worst part – I don’t know what exactly I want, but I do continue my journey because I am still alive.  Or maybe I am still alive because I do continue my journey and my journey is my success.  I don’t feel successful.  I should imagine being successful.  What do I do in the meantime, yes, between pretending being successful and figuring out what success actually means for me?</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>I keep reading self-help books.  Most people say that I read all the wrong books, but let them say whatever they want.  This new book that I picked and put a lot of hope into is “Awaken the Giant Within” by Anthony Robbins.  I will be journaling my experiences from now on, because I have a feeling that there are some positive changes in my life.  A lot of setbacks, too, but…   But we shall judge life by the results, or not judge, or maybe judge, but not by results…  Let the journey continue…</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<blockquote><p><strong>“Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.”  (Orison Swett Marden)</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>“A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.”  (Benjamin Disraeli)</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>“Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.”  (Boris Pasternak)</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>“Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men.”  (Benjamin Disraeli)</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>“Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.”  (Benjamin Disraeli)</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>“Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth – that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.”  (Johann Wolfgang Goethe)</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.”  (Henry David Thoreau)</strong></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Boris Pasternak. February.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Svetlana</dc:creator>
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Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)
 
 



 
 
February
 
 
February. Get ink, shed tears.
Write of it, sob your heart out, sing,
While torrential slush that roars
Burns in the blackness of the spring.
 
 
Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas,
Race through the noise of bells and wheels
To where the ink and all you grieving
Are muffled when the rain shower falls.
 
 
To where, like pears [...]]]></description>
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<h3>Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)</h3>
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<h1>February</h1>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>February. Get ink, shed tears.</p>
<p>Write of it, sob your heart out, sing,</p>
<p>While torrential slush that roars</p>
<p>Burns in the blackness of the spring.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas,</p>
<p>Race through the noise of bells and wheels</p>
<p>To where the ink and all you grieving</p>
<p>Are muffled when the rain shower falls.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>To where, like pears burnt black as charcoal,</p>
<p>A myriad rooks, plucked from the trees,</p>
<p>Fall down into the puddles, hurl</p>
<p>Dry sadness deep into the eyes.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Below, the wet black earth shows through,</p>
<p>With sudden cries the wind is pitted,</p>
<p>The more haphazard, the more true</p>
<p>The poetry that sobs its heart out.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </td>
<td width="271" valign="top"> </p>
<p> </p>
<h1>Февраль</h1>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Февраль. Достать чернил и плакать!</p>
<p>Писать о феврале навзрыд,</p>
<p>Пока грохочащая слякоть</p>
<p>Весною черною горит.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Достать пролетку. За шесть гривен</p>
<p>Чрез благовест, чрез клик колес</p>
<p>Перенестись туда, где ливень</p>
<p>Еще шумней чернил и слез.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Где, как обугленные груши,</p>
<p>С деревьев тысячи грачей</p>
<p>Сорвутся в лужи и обрушат</p>
<p>Сухую грусть на дно очей.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Под ней проталины чернеют,</p>
<p>И ветер криками изрыт,</p>
<p>И чем случайней, тем вернее</p>
<p>Слагаются стихи навзрыд.</p>
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		<title>A Candle Burned</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Svetlana</dc:creator>
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Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)
 
 



  
Winter&#8217;s Night
 
 
Blizzards were blowing everywhere
Throughout the land.
A candle burned upon the table,
A candle burned.
 
 
As midgets in the summer fly
Towards a flame,
The snowflakes from the yard swarmed to
The window pane.
 
 
And, on the glass, bright snowy rings
And arrows formed.
A candle burned upon the table,
A candle burned.
 
 
And on the white illumined ceiling
Shadows were cast,
As [...]]]></description>
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<h3>Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)</h3>
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<h1>Winter&#8217;s Night</h1>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Blizzards were blowing everywhere</p>
<p>Throughout the land.</p>
<p>A candle burned upon the table,</p>
<p>A candle burned.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>As midgets in the summer fly</p>
<p>Towards a flame,</p>
<p>The snowflakes from the yard swarmed to</p>
<p>The window pane.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>And, on the glass, bright snowy rings</p>
<p>And arrows formed.</p>
<p>A candle burned upon the table,</p>
<p>A candle burned.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>And on the white illumined ceiling</p>
<p>Shadows were cast,</p>
<p>As arms and legs and destinies</p>
<p>Fatefully crossed.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Two slippers fell on to the floor</p>
<p>With a light sound,</p>
<p>And waxen tears dripped from the candle</p>
<p>On to a gown.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>No object in the misty whiteness</p>
<p>Could be discerned.</p>
<p>A candle burned upon the table,</p>
<p>A candle burned.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>A mild draught coming from the corner</p>
<p>Blew on the candle,</p>
<p>Seduction&#8217;s heat raised two wings crosswise</p>
<p>As might an angel.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>It snowed and snowed that February</p>
<p>All through the land.</p>
<p>A candle burned upon the table,</p>
<p>A candle burned.</td>
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<h1>Зимняя ночь</h1>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Мело, мело по всей земле</p>
<p>Во все пределы.</p>
<p>Свеча горела на столе,</p>
<p>Свеча горела.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Как летом роем мошкара</p>
<p>Летит на пламя,</p>
<p>Слетались хлопья со двора</p>
<p>К оконной раме.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Метель лепила на столе</p>
<p>Кружки и стрелы.</p>
<p>Свеча горела на столе,</p>
<p>Свеча горела.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>На озаренный потолок</p>
<p>Ложились тени,</p>
<p>Скрещенья рук, скрещенья ног,</p>
<p>Судьбы скрещенья.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>И падали два башмачка</p>
<p>Со стуком на пол,</p>
<p>И воск слезами с ночника</p>
<p>На платье капал.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>И все терялось в снежной мгле</p>
<p>Седой и белой.</p>
<p>Свеча горела на столе,</p>
<p>Свеча горела.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>На свечку дуло из угла,</p>
<p>И жар соблазна</p>
<p>Вздымал, как ангел, два крыла</p>
<p>Крестообразно.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Мело весь месяц в феврале,</p>
<p>И то и дело</p>
<p>Свеча горела на столе,</p>
<p>Свеча горела.</td>
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		<title>Measuring Silence&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Svetlana</dc:creator>
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Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)
 
A song from the film “Fate’s Irony”.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjRbmBXywH4
 
 



 
***
 
There&#8217;ll be no one in the house
Save for twilight. All alone,
Winter&#8217;s day seen in the space that&#8217;s
Made by curtains left undrawn.
 
 
Only flash-past of the wet white
Snowflake clusters, glimpsed and gone.
Only roofs and snows, and save for
Roofs and snow &#8211; no one at home.
 
 
Once more, frost [...]]]></description>
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<h3>Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)</h3>
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<p>A song from the film “Fate’s Irony”.</p>
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<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjRbmBXywH4</p>
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<p>***</p>
<p> </p>
<p>There&#8217;ll be no one in the house</p>
<p>Save for twilight. All alone,</p>
<p>Winter&#8217;s day seen in the space that&#8217;s</p>
<p>Made by curtains left undrawn.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Only flash-past of the wet white</p>
<p>Snowflake clusters, glimpsed and gone.</p>
<p>Only roofs and snows, and save for</p>
<p>Roofs and snow &#8211; no one at home.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Once more, frost will trace its patterns,</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be haunted once again</p>
<p>By my last-year&#8217;s melancholy,</p>
<p>By that other wintertime.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Once more I&#8217;ll be troubled by an</p>
<p>Old, un-expiated shame,</p>
<p>And the icy firewood famine</p>
<p>Will press on the window-pane.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>But the quiver of intrusion</p>
<p>Through those curtain folds will run</p>
<p>Measuring silence with your footsteps,</p>
<p>Like the future, in you&#8217;ll come.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>You&#8217;ll appear there in the doorway</p>
<p>Wearing something white and plain,</p>
<p>Something in the very stuff from</p>
<p>Which the snowflakes too are sewn.</td>
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<p>***</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Никого не будет в доме,</p>
<p>Кроме сумерек. Один</p>
<p>Зимний день в сквозном проеме</p>
<p>Незадернутых гардин.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Только белых мокрых комьев</p>
<p>Быстрый промельк моховой.</p>
<p>Только крыши, снег и, кроме</p>
<p>Крыш и снега, &#8211; никого.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>И опять зачертит иней,</p>
<p>И опять завертит мной</p>
<p>Прошлогоднее унынье</p>
<p>И дела зимы иной,</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>И опять кольнут доныне</p>
<p>Неотпущенной виной,</p>
<p>И окно по крестовине</p>
<p>Сдавит голод дровяной.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Но нежданно по портьере</p>
<p>Пробежит вторженья дрожь.</p>
<p>Тишину шагами меря,</p>
<p>Ты, как будущность, войдешь.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Ты появишься у двери</p>
<p>В чем-то белом, без причуд,</p>
<p>В чем-то впрямь из тех материй,</p>
<p>Из которых хлопья шьют.</p>
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