No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
BORIS PASTERNAKHe comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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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 life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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