How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
BORIS PASTERNAKAt the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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