Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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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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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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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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