Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
BORIS PASTERNAKI hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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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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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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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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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 have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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