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.
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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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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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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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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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