He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
BORIS PASTERNAKNo 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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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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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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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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