Boris Pasternak

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over,
Snow swept the world from end to end.
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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 is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim read more

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. -Boris Pasternak.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

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

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

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.