Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
BORIS PASTERNAKWe must discover security within ourselves.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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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.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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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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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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