She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
BORIS PASTERNAKTo be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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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 is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain 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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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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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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
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I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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