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.
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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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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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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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