It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
BORIS PASTERNAKOnly the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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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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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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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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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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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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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