That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
BORIS PASTERNAKHe was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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