What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
BORIS PASTERNAKWhen 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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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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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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