Failure to love is almost like murder.
BORIS PASTERNAKArt 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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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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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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