To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
BORIS PASTERNAKImmensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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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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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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