Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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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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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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