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Boris Pasternak Quotes
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
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. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
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. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
I dont like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isnt of much value. Life hasnt revealed its beauty to them. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
No bad man can be a good poet. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion! - Boris Pasternak Quotes
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
Thats metaphysics, my dear fellow. Its forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach wont take it. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isnt just a fiction, its part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It cant be forever violated with impunity. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
They dont ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; ones stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destructions path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
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