We must discover security within ourselves.
BORIS PASTERNAKEven 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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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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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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