If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
BORIS PASTERNAKMost people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
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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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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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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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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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