And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
BORIS PASTERNAKI come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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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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He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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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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