Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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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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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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