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Boris Pasternak on Valentine's Day

1890–1960 Russia

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5 quotes

They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely.

Doctor Zhivago (1957)

My own heart would have concealed it from me, for failure to love is almost like murder and I would have been incapable of inflicting such a blow on anyone.

Doctor Zhivago (1957)

Am I a gangster or a murderer?
Of what crime do I stand
Condemned? I made the whole world weep
At the beauty of my land.

Selected Poems (1983)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Boris Pasternak (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.