To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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 have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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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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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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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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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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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees 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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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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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 no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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