As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
BORIS PASTERNAKTo be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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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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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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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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