An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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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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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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