Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
BORIS PASTERNAKIn life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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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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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 last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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