Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
BORIS PASTERNAKThe most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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