As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
BORIS PASTERNAKI 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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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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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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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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