Boris Pasternak Quotes

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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…
• Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
• Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
• All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
• What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He…
• 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,…
• Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ?
• Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
• Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
• You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.
• You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of…
• 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…
• Failure to love is almost like murder.
• The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
• 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.
• What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth
• I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is…
• 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…
• But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
• At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

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