Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
BORIS PASTERNAKWhen 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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