Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
BORIS PASTERNAKThe unarmed power of naked truth.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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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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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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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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I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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