She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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