As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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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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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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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I 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.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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