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.
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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The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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