No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
BORIS PASTERNAKWe must discover security within ourselves.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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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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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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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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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