And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
BORIS PASTERNAKWhen 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain 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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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees 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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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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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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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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