Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
BORIS PASTERNAKThe most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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