At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
BORIS PASTERNAKHow 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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