In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
BORIS PASTERNAKYet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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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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