Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
BORIS PASTERNAKIf 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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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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You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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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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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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