An unshared happiness is not happiness.
BORIS PASTERNAKIt is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Art 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.
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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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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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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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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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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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.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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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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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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