The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
BORIS PASTERNAKSurprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through 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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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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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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
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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 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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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