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.
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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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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