I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
BORIS PASTERNAKYou and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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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 hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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 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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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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