Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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