Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
BORIS PASTERNAKHe comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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