Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
BORIS PASTERNAKHe 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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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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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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