Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
BORIS PASTERNAKMost people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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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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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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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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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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