Failure to love is almost like murder.
BORIS PASTERNAKImmensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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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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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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