You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
BORIS PASTERNAKFailure to love is almost like murder.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for 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 most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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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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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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