To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
BORIS PASTERNAKShe was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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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.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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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.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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