Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
BORIS PASTERNAKThe whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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