Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
BORIS PASTERNAKNo single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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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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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’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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