An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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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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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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
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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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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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