Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on 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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The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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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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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for 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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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