A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
BORIS PASTERNAKYou 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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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.
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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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