To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
BORIS PASTERNAKNo single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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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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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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