The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
BORIS PASTERNAKHe comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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.
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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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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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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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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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