No bad man can be a good poet.
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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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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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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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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