Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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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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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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They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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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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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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