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.
BORIS PASTERNAKAs in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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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 writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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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.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on 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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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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