I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
BORIS PASTERNAKAll mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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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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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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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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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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