And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
BORIS PASTERNAKShe was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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