Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
BORIS PASTERNAKMan is born to live, not to prepare for life.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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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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But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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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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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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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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