The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
BORIS PASTERNAKI used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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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.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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