At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
BORIS PASTERNAKOur evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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