I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
BORIS PASTERNAKFailure to love is almost like murder.
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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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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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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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 is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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