How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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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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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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