Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
BORIS PASTERNAKI 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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 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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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