Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
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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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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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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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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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The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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