If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
BORIS PASTERNAKImmensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on 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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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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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 the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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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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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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