Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
BORIS PASTERNAKWe must discover security within ourselves.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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 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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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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