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.
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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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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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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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