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

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

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  1. Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it. – Boris Pasternak
  2. Her dark hair was scattered and its beauty stung his eyes like smoke and ate into his heart. – Boris Pasternak
  3. No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow. – Boris Pasternak
  4. And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart? – Boris Pasternak
  5. As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth. – Boris Pasternak
  6. Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Life itself, the phenomenon of life, the gift of life, is so breath-takingly serious! – Boris Pasternak
  7. The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable. – Boris Pasternak
  8. For life, too, is only an instant,Only the dissolving of ourselvesIn the selves of all othersAs if bestowing a gift -“ – Boris Pasternak
  9. For life, too, is only an instant,Only the dissolving of ourselvesIn the selves of all othersAs if bestowing a gift -“ – Boris Pasternak
  10. In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being. – Boris Pasternak
  11. If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love. – Boris Pasternak
  12. When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it. – Boris Pasternak
  13. Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them. – Boris Pasternak
  14. It is the photographing of ordinary things, in extraordinary light, that produces extraordinary photographs. – David Young
  15. We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love. – Jean Vanier
  16. By doing ordinary actions efficiently you will become the best among ordinary, but you will not be an extraordinary. – Amit Kalantri
  17. The ordinary stories of our ordinary lives have extraordinary gifts coded within them. . . – Christina Baldwin
  18. Ordinary people pursue money, simple people pursue power, average people pursue fame, but extraordinary people pursue ideas. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  19. Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you saying? – Mopelola Adeniyi
  20. Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature. – Tadeusz Konwicki
  21. The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  22. Discovering God is the key to discovering purpose – Sunday Adelaja
  23. Great leadership makes ordinary people into extraordinary people. – Jeffrey Fry
  24. Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don’t accept the ego of ordinary people. – Amit Kalantri
  25. Ordinary people want everything the world does better. Extraordinary people focus on what they do best. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
  26. Ordinary people are products of their environment. Extraordinary people make their environments products of them. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  27. It is the manner of death that reveals the importance of a man. Ordinary people are murdered while extraordinary people are assassinated. – Ashwin Sanghi
  28. Passion is the fuel that drives ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results by aligning their hearts, minds, beliefs and efforts. – Dr Asoka Jinadasa
  29. A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things. – Barack Obama
  30. Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people. – Nicholas Sparks
  31. In every time, in every culture, ordinary people have done extraordinary things. – MR Neer
  32. Forever is a measure of time used by people who share an ordinary love. Our extraordinary love is immeasurable…for us, forever just won’t do. – Steve Maraboli
  33. Learning to read is one of the most extraordinary gifts you’ll ever receive, so open up God’s Word and read the most extraordinary book ever written. – JEB Spredemann
  34. Extraordinary storms turn average seamen into extraordinary sailors. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  35. Bloodlines and last names didn’t make a man extraordinary -” the extraordinary existed in what we did in life, not in who we were. – Courtney Alameda
  36. Great minds birth great ideas.Extraordinary minds birth extraordinary ideas.Transcendent minds birth transcendent ideas. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  37. Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
  38. I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
  39. Ordinary people can do extra ordinary things when they create opportunity towards their passion – Sivaprakash Sidhu
  40. Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception. – Ervin Staub

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