Failure to love is almost like murder.
BORIS PASTERNAKArt is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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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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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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In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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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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