Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
BORIS PASTERNAKBut what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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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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I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
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