Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
BORIS PASTERNAKI come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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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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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Even 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.
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