Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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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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If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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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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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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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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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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