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.
BORIS PASTERNAKBut the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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