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.
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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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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 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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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