Failure to love is almost like murder.
BORIS PASTERNAKAs for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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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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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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