No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
BORIS PASTERNAKSurprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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