At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
BORIS PASTERNAKIt snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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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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