How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of 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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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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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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Mother 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.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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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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