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.
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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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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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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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