To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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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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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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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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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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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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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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