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.
BORIS PASTERNAKThe unarmed power of naked truth.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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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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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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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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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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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