Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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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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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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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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