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Boris Pasternak
The whole of...
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
Source: In...
That's metaphysics, my...
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take...
As in an...
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this...
I don't like...
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life...
Immensely grateful, touched,...
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
Source: Telegram accepting...
At the moment...
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned,...
Art is interested...
Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
Art has two...
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great,...
As far as...
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. . . ....
In view of...
In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved...
I come here...
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...
No bad man...
No bad man can be a good poet.
Source: Quoted in Ilya Ehrenburg, Truce
-- Boris...
In every generation...
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
Everything established, settled,...
Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common round, has crumbled into dust and...
As for the...
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to...
Man is born...
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
Source: Doctor Zhivago
-- Boris...
Art is unthinkable...
Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
Source: In Webster's...
Art always serves...
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no...
What is laid...
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of...
I think that...
I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution,...
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