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 PASTERNAKOnly the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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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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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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