Failure to love is almost like murder.
BORIS PASTERNAKMan is born to live, not to prepare for life.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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 bad man can be a good poet.
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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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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