I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
BORIS PASTERNAKDeparture beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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 the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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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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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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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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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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