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.
BORIS PASTERNAKIt snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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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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