I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
BORIS PASTERNAKHe was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from 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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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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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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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