Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
BORIS PASTERNAKAn unshared happiness is not happiness.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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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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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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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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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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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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