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.
BORIS PASTERNAKWhat for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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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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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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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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.
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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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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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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.
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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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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