The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
BORIS PASTERNAKSurprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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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.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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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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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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