Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
BORIS PASTERNAKAnd remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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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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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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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