The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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