In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
BORIS PASTERNAKYou are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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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.
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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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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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