Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
BORIS PASTERNAKOh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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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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The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you 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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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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