As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
BORIS PASTERNAKOh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain 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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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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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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