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.
BORIS PASTERNAKIt snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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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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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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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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