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.
BORIS PASTERNAKA corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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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 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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees 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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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