As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
BORIS PASTERNAKNo deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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 interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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