Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
BORIS PASTERNAKFailure to love is almost like murder.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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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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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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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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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 love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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