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.
BORIS PASTERNAKMother 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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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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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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