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Boris Pasternak Quotes
«Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.»
«I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrified himself.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
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emblem, Emblems, jail, prophet, retribution, retributions, sleeps, tamer, tamers, The Beast, The Prophet, Threats
«I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
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accumulated, bit by bit, corroded, corrodes, corroding, deafness, disgusting, dismantle, dismantled, entrenched, entrenches, hardened, insensitivity, spurt, spurts
«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.»
«What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.»
«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.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
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across, come across, here and there, such as, The Object of, unmixed, victim, with compassion
«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.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
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Work
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order of the day, stores, The Forgotten, The Order
«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.»
«They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
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despise
«One day Lara went out and did not come back.... She died or vanished somewhere, forgotten as a nameless number on a list which was afterwards mislaid.»
Author: Boris Pasternak