Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
BORIS PASTERNAKThe unarmed power of naked truth.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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 most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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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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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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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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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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