The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
BORIS PASTERNAKYou and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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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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