The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
BORIS PASTERNAKI love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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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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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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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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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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