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.
BORIS PASTERNAKThe whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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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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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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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 unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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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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The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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