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.
BORIS PASTERNAKI 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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