Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
BORIS PASTERNAKPoetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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He 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.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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