Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
BORIS PASTERNAK
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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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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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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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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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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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