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.
BORIS PASTERNAKMother 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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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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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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