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 PASTERNAKAt the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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