Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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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 bad man can be a good poet.
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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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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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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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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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