I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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 love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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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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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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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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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
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