Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
BORIS PASTERNAKSurprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
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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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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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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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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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