We must discover security within ourselves.
BORIS PASTERNAKLove is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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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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