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Art always serves beauty, and...

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 121 quotes

Don't be upset. Don't listen ...

Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable. I am jealous of your toilet articles, of the drops of sweat on your skin, of the germs in the air you breathe which could get into your blood and poison you. And I am jealous of Komarovsky, as if he were an infectious disease. Someday he will take you away, just as certainly as death will someday separate us. I know this must seem obscure and confused, but I can't say it more clearly. I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely.

Boris Pasternak 121 quotes

Reshaping life! People who ca...

Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.

Boris Pasternak 121 quotes

Lara walked along the tracks ...

Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took a deep breath of the flower-scented air of the broad expanse around her. It was dearer to her than her kin, better than a lover, wiser than a book. For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or, if this were not within her power, to give birth out of love for life to successors who would do it in her place.

Boris Pasternak 121 quotes

You fall into my arms. You ar...

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.

Boris Pasternak 121 quotes

You and I, it's as though we ...

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 121 quotes

I am caught like a beast at b...

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 121 quotes

About dreams. It is usually t...

About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but it seems to me it?s just the contrary. Often it?s something you paid no attention to at the time -- a vague thought that you didn?t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed -- these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.

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Even so, one step from my gra...

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 121 quotes

In life it is more necessary ...

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

Boris Pasternak 121 quotes

The great majority of us are ...

The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity.

Boris Pasternak 121 quotes

A corner draft fluttered the ...

A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.

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In every generation there has...

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

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... the unarmed power of nake...

... the unarmed power of naked truth.

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In this era of world wars, in...

In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.

Boris Pasternak 121 quotes

They loved each other, not dr...

They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet.

Boris Pasternak 121 quotes

If you want to know, life is ...

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 121 quotes

And now listen carefully. You...

And now listen carefully. You in others-this is your soul. This is what you are. This is what your consciousness has breathed and lived on and enjoyed throughout your life-your soul, your immortality, your life in others. And what now? You have always been in others and you will remain in others. And what does it matter to you if later on that is called your memory? This will be you-the you that enters the future and becomes a part of it.

Boris Pasternak 121 quotes

How wonderful to be alive, he...

How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

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And remember: you must never,...

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

Boris Pasternak 121 quotes

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