All 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; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
Boris Pasternak
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They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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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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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.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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