At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
BORIS PASTERNAKI love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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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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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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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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