I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
BORIS PASTERNAKI come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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