That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
BORIS PASTERNAKAnd remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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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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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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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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