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.
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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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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I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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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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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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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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