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It's only in bad novels that p...

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 mixed up! Don't you think you'd have to be a hopeless nonentity to play only one role all your life, to have only one place in society, always to stand for the same thing?--Ah, there you are!' - Larissa Fyodorovna in Doctor Zhivago.

Boris Pasternak 121 quotes

And remember: you must never, ...

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

Boris Pasternak 121 quotes

Here they are, all in one plac...

Here they are, all in one place. Circle back to them when you need some poetic shine.
It is not revolutions and upheavals that clear the road to better days,
but revelations, and lavishness of someone's soul inspired, and ablaze.

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A corner draft fluttered the f...

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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I don't like people who have n...

I 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.

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Literature is the art of disco...

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

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As for the men in power, they ...

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

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What is laid down, ordered, fa...

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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How many things in the world d...

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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How wonderful to be alive, he ...

How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

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And why is it, thought Lara, t...

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

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He was a natural, and in the R...

He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.

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Man is born to live, not to pr...

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

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All mothers are mothers of gre...

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

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What you don't understand is t...

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 should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.

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No deep and strong feeling, su...

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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You and I are like the first t...

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.

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The great majority of us are r...

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.

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When a great moment knocks on ...

When 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.

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Good-bye... why am I hemorrhag...

Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ?

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