It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
BORIS PASTERNAKI have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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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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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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