Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
BORIS PASTERNAKIt 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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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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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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He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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