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.
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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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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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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