In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
BORIS PASTERNAKThat’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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