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.
BORIS PASTERNAKI love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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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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I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
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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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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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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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