I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
BORIS PASTERNAKAs in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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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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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take 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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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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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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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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