Failure to love is almost like murder.
BORIS PASTERNAKI hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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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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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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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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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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