How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
BORIS PASTERNAKThe unarmed power of naked truth.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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