Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
BORIS PASTERNAKThe whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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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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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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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 most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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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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