An unshared happiness is not happiness.
BORIS PASTERNAKDuring the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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