No bad man can be a good poet.
BORIS PASTERNAKWhat is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
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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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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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