Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak74 quotes“Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.”
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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.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak 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 PasternakBoris Pasternak We must discover security within ourselves.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak 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.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak The unarmed power of naked truth.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak An unshared happiness is not happiness.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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