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.
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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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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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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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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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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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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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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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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