Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
BORIS PASTERNAKThe last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on 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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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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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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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No 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.
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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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