You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
BORIS PASTERNAKAn unshared happiness is not happiness.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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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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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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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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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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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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