Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
BORIS PASTERNAKAt the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
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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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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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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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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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