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.
BORIS PASTERNAKEven so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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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.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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The unarmed power of naked 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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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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