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.
BORIS PASTERNAKImmensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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