Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
BORIS PASTERNAKImmensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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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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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 are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on 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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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.
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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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