Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
BORIS PASTERNAKTo be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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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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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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