Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
BORIS PASTERNAKYet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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