An unshared happiness is not happiness.
BORIS PASTERNAKHe was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. 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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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