The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
BORIS PASTERNAKDeparture beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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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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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
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But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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