The unarmed power of naked 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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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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