He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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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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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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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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