It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
BORIS PASTERNAKAll mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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.
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