And 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 PASTERNAKAnd remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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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.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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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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I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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But 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.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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