Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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