Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
BORIS PASTERNAK
I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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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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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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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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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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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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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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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