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Only Quotes by Boris Pasternak
- Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
- They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
- In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
- The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
- Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those…
- And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine…
- Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable. I am jealous…
- But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed…
- Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
- It's only in bad novels that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life everything gets…
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