Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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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 have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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