He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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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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In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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