We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
BORIS PASTERNAKWe’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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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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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Mother 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.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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