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.
BORIS PASTERNAKFailure to love is almost like murder.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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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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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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