I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
BORIS PASTERNAKAnd why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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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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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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