Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
BORIS PASTERNAKMost people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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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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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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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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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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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
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