What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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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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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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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain 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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