The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
BORIS PASTERNAKThe last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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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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If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
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