Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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 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.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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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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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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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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