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.
BORIS PASTERNAKLove is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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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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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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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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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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