She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
BORIS PASTERNAKThe last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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 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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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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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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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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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 last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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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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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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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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