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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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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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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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 love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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