Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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 whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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.
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But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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