Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
BORIS PASTERNAKThe unarmed power of naked truth.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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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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