As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
BORIS PASTERNAKArt is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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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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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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