How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
BORIS PASTERNAKThat’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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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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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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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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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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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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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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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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