Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
BORIS PASTERNAKSurprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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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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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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