The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
BORIS PASTERNAK- In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
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In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
BORIS PASTERNAKArt is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
BORIS PASTERNAKImmensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
BORIS PASTERNAKNo deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
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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.
BORIS PASTERNAKOur evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
BORIS PASTERNAKShe was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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How 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.
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.
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In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
BORIS PASTERNAKIn this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
BORIS PASTERNAKSalvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
BORIS PASTERNAKHow wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
BORIS PASTERNAKAn unshared happiness is not happiness.
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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
BORIS PASTERNAKThat’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
BORIS PASTERNAKMan is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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.
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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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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