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.
BORIS PASTERNAKLove is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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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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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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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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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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