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.
BORIS PASTERNAKAs 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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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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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
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You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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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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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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