That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take 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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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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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 life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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