The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
BORIS PASTERNAKImmensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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 come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
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