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Boris Pasternak quotes: Only the superfluous is dirty. Only the superfluous is dirty.
Boris Pasternak quotes: The trains either don't run at all or come so full that it is impossible to get on them. The trains either don't run at all or come so full that it is impossible to get on them.
Boris Pasternak quotes: She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments. She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Mother Russia is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop. Mother Russia is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop.
Boris Pasternak quotes: She was obsessed with the idea of breaking with everything she had ever known or experienced, and starting on something new. She was obsessed with the idea of breaking with everything she had ever known or experienced, and starting on something new.
Boris Pasternak quotes: As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world. As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
Boris Pasternak quotes: In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it. In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it. Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Life is not as easy as croosing a field Life is not as easy as croosing a field
Boris Pasternak quotes: In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies. In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
Boris Pasternak quotes: I was sent by God to torment / myself, my family, everyone / whom it's a sin to torment. I was sent by God to torment / myself, my family, everyone / whom it's a sin to torment.
Boris Pasternak quotes: He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities. He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
Boris Pasternak quotes: You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine. You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.
Boris Pasternak quotes: 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. 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.
Boris Pasternak quotes: They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise. They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
Boris Pasternak quotes: That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it. That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
Boris Pasternak quotes: We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity. We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.
Boris Pasternak quotes: I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom. I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
Boris Pasternak quotes: But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces? But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
Boris Pasternak quotes: All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them. All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it. Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
Boris Pasternak quotes: What an incorrigible nonentity one must be to play only one role in life, to occupy only one place in society, to always mean one and the same thing! What an incorrigible nonentity one must be to play only one role in life, to occupy only one place in society, to always mean one and the same thing!
Boris Pasternak quotes: Thou hast spread Thy arms to embrace far too many,Flinging Thy hands out till they reach the ends of the crossbeam. Thou hast spread Thy arms to embrace far too many,
Flinging Thy hands out till they reach the ends of the crossbeam.
Boris Pasternak quotes: 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. 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.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life. Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
Boris Pasternak quotes: And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune. And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
Boris Pasternak quotes: They really thought what other people sing in songs. They really thought what other people sing in songs.
Boris Pasternak quotes: To be a woman is a great adventure;To drive men mad is a heroic thing. To be a woman is a great adventure;
To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
Boris Pasternak quotes: It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it. It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
Boris Pasternak quotes: 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. 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.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Failure to love is almost like murder. Failure to love is almost like murder.
Boris Pasternak quotes: The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable. The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
Boris Pasternak quotes: How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt? How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
Boris Pasternak quotes: Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it. Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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. 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: 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. 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.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Drying, the storm mumbles, / like a freshly washed apron. Drying, the storm mumbles, / like a freshly washed apron.
Boris Pasternak quotes: If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love. If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
Boris Pasternak quotes: We must discover security within ourselves. We must discover security within ourselves.
Boris Pasternak quotes: 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. 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.
Boris Pasternak quotes: A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow. A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
Boris Pasternak quotes: 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. 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.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Her dark hair was scattered and its beauty stung his eyes like smoke and ate into his heart. Her dark hair was scattered and its beauty stung his eyes like smoke and ate into his heart.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Man is born to live and not to prepare to live. Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
Boris Pasternak quotes: I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.
Boris Pasternak quotes: I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it. I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Don't let my soul be riddled / by deceit: kill it or, / like fog, it will seep through / a heap of white chaff. Don't let my soul be riddled / by deceit: kill it or, / like fog, it will seep through / a heap of white chaff.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them. Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Poetry searches for music amidst the tumult of the dictionary. Poetry searches for music amidst the tumult of the dictionary.
Boris Pasternak quotes: But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the world? = MEETING = But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the world? = MEETING =
Boris Pasternak quotes: Happy are the downtrodden. Happy are the downtrodden.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great. Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great.
Boris Pasternak quotes: At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Beyond, pines hold sermons. Beyond, pines hold sermons.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Aren't we sensitive! We're something special. We're cultured. It's too much for us. Aren't we sensitive! We're something special. We're cultured. It's too much for us.
Boris Pasternak quotes: 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. 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.
Boris Pasternak quotes: An unshared happiness is not happiness. An unshared happiness is not happiness.
Boris Pasternak quotes: The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning. The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
Boris Pasternak quotes: She had once been the belle of her circle of small tradesmen and salesmen, but now her little pig eyes with their swollen lids could scarcely open. She had once been the belle of her circle of small tradesmen and salesmen, but now her little pig eyes with their swollen lids could scarcely open.
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. 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: In one corner the piano tuner scattered arpeggios live handfuls of beads. In one corner the piano tuner scattered arpeggios live handfuls of beads.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Still more than by the communion of souls, they were united by the abyss that separated them from the rest of the world. Still more than by the communion of souls, they were united by the abyss that separated them from the rest of the world.
Boris Pasternak quotes: I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me. I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
Boris Pasternak quotes: In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being. In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being.
Boris Pasternak quotes: What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth. What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
Boris Pasternak quotes: If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself ... If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself ...
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. 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: And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart? And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
Boris Pasternak quotes: The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with subject matter itself, only with how much the subject matter touches the author. The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with subject matter itself, only with how much the subject matter touches the author.
Boris Pasternak quotes: No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow. No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.
Boris Pasternak quotes: During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist ... literature had stopped. During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist ... literature had stopped.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice. Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
Boris Pasternak quotes: She has more names than petticoats. She has more names than petticoats.
Boris Pasternak quotes: And then the two basic ideals of modern man- without them he is unthinkable- the idea of free personality and the idea of life as sacrafice And then the two basic ideals of modern man- without them he is unthinkable- the idea of free personality and the idea of life as sacrafice
Boris Pasternak quotes: Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Boris Pasternak quotes: No bad man can be a good poet. No bad man can be a good poet.
Boris Pasternak quotes: The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say. The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
Boris Pasternak quotes: When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it. When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
Boris Pasternak quotes: They had the boastful, dead eternity of bronze monuments and marble columns. They had the boastful, dead eternity of bronze monuments and marble columns.
Boris Pasternak quotes: The unarmed power of naked truth. The unarmed power of naked truth.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs. Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
Boris Pasternak quotes: While the music played a whole eternity went by like life in a novel While the music played a whole eternity went by like life in a novel
Boris Pasternak quotes: Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death. Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
Boris Pasternak quotes: Only the superfluous is sordid Only the superfluous is sordid
Boris Pasternak quotes: I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely. I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.

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