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.
BORIS PASTERNAKThe unarmed power of naked truth.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
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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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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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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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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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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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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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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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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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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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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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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from 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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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