Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
BORIS PASTERNAKArt is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
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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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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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