The unarmed power of naked truth.
BORIS PASTERNAKIn life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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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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