That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
BORIS PASTERNAKI used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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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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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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He 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.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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.
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