In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
BORIS PASTERNAKFailure to love is almost like murder.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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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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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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