Quotes by Konsztantyin Pausztovszkij

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We must not only look, but also see, and not only listen, but also hear.

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In some cases, nature should not be left alone. It must be directed for the benefit of humanity, but of course its fundamental laws must not be interfered with. Human happiness does not depend on the progress of civilization. Happiness is an eternal category.

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There are trials that a person should never have to endure, they are so cruel and so contradict the lofty values ​​for which he lived for so many years and for which he raised humanity to respect.

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There are periods of life that you never want to think back on. Not because memories of our mistakes, failures or unhappiness are attached to them. My father often said that even failure has its good side. So this is not the reason why I am sometimes reluctant to return to the past. I don't feel like recalling certain periods of my life because they didn't add anything to the picture of reality that lives in each of us.

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I am often surprised by how blindly we walk through life, we have no idea or even imagine how much tragedy, great humanity, sorrow, heroism, meanness and despair the piece of land we live in is the scene of. And we just live, and we don't even suspect all this.

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There is no greater happiness on earth (...) than the agreement of related people, and there is nothing more tragic than dying love, the inexplicable, imperceptibly spreading and undeserved destruction of the feeling. From one minute to the next, a person is completely alone.

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One of the strongest instinctive desires of man is the desire to record in his memory what is irretrievably disappearing.

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The anticipation of happy days is sometimes much better than the happy days themselves.