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.
BORIS PASTERNAKNo bad man can be a good poet.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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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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