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.
BORIS PASTERNAKAs in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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