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.
BORIS PASTERNAKThe unarmed power of naked truth.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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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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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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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 am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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