And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
BORIS PASTERNAKAs for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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 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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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.
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