Failure to love is almost like murder.
BORIS PASTERNAKArt is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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In 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.
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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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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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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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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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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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