Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain 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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No 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.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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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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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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