No bad man can be a good poet.
BORIS PASTERNAKWhen 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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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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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 fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
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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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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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 last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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