Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
BORIS PASTERNAKOur evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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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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But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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I 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.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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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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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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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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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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