How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
Boris PasternakI don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
Boris PasternakTags: life
And if he were really to do good he would have needed in addition to his principles, a heart capable of violating them - a heart which knows only of particular not of general cases and which achieves greatness in little actions.
Boris PasternakHappy are the downtrodden.
Boris PasternakPoetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.
Boris PasternakAnd why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
Boris PasternakTags: pain heart sensitivity
You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with - at the end of it, you and I are just as stripped and homeless. And you and I are the last remembrance of all that immeasurable greatness which has been created in all the thousands of years between their time and ours, and it is in memory of all that vanished splendour that we live and love and weep and cling to one another.
Boris PasternakAs for the men in power,
they are so anxious to establish
the myth of infallibility that they
do their utmost to ignore truth.
Tags: power
The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity.
Boris PasternakWhen a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
Boris PasternakTags: opportunity
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