No bad man can be a good poet.
BORIS PASTERNAK
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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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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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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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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