Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
BORIS PASTERNAKLiterature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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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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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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