I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
BORIS PASTERNAKMother 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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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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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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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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