Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
BORIS PASTERNAKYet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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