The unarmed power of naked truth.
BORIS PASTERNAKLove is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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.
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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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