We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
BORIS PASTERNAKMan is born to live, not to prepare for life.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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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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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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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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