You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
BORIS PASTERNAKYou fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
BORIS PASTERNAKAnd so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
BORIS PASTERNAKI love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
BORIS PASTERNAKIn this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
BORIS PASTERNAKThe whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
BORIS PASTERNAKI have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
BORIS PASTERNAKHe comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
BORIS PASTERNAKOur evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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.
BORIS PASTERNAKWe’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
BORIS PASTERNAKThey don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
BORIS PASTERNAKShe was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
BORIS PASTERNAKIn every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
BORIS PASTERNAKImmensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
BORIS PASTERNAKMan is born to live, not to prepare for life.
BORIS PASTERNAKLove is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
BORIS PASTERNAK