Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
BORIS PASTERNAKIt is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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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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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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