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.
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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on 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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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