As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
BORIS PASTERNAKArt 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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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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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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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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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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