During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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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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He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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