He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
BORIS PASTERNAKThat’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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