An unshared happiness is not happiness.
BORIS PASTERNAKHe was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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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 was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss 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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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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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