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Quote by Boris Pasternak

“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 and frequently reopened wound.”

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Boris Pasternak

Russian poet, writer, and translator. Boris Pasternak is renowned for his profound psychological insight and beautiful poetic language. His works widely cover themes such as love, humanity, morality, and philosophy, and have had a profound impact on 20th-century literature. more

“These people you used to see every day, friends or acquaintances, after a while they become as distant as any stranger, people you suddenly recall late at night--you remember something they said or something silly that someone once did. For a few moments they completely occupy your mind; then you forget them again.”

People Mind Said Moments Remember Used Night Forget Late Stranger Silly Recalls They Said Acquaintance Remember Something

Author:Stephen Dobyns

“My wife's dying upstairs and I can't do anything about it. I look in her face and I see the memories there. I see how I hurt her and how I said the wrong things and how I got angry and how I wasn't the man she hoped I'd be. I see that in her face and I see she's going to die with that. You think I'm not preoccupied?”

Thinking Men Looks Said I Can Faces Dies Hurt Memories Wife Dying Angry My Wife Wrong Things Upstairs

Author:Stephen Dobyns

“My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.”

Used Daddy All The Pretty Horses

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.”

Men Mean Soul Sometimes Spiritual Turns Subjects Objects Bed Dialogue Comes And Goes

Book:Herzog