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Letter "B" » Boris Pasternak Quotes
«Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
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prepare
«Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.»
«Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.»
«You fall into my arms. / You are the good gift of destruction's path, / When life sickens more than disease / And boldness is the root of beauty- / Which draws us together.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
boldness, destruction, draws, fall into, root, sicken, sickened, sickening, sickens, with boldness
«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.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
| About:
Art,
Death and dying,
Life
| Keywords:
concerns, continues, genuine, john, meditates, resembles, revelation, Revelation of, St. John, St John, unending
«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.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
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copying, paintings, rewarding, translate, translation, translations, very much, very much like
«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.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
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Spirit
| Keywords:
cruelty, crushed, even so, grave, in time, one-step, spite, The Power of Darkness
«As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.»
«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.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
| About:
Society,
Writers
| Keywords:
contemporaries, Faust, individualist, individualists, madman, Modern Age, semi, surviving, The Modern Age
«Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.»
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