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Famous Boris Pasternak Quotes
“Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.”
“Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.”
“The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.”
“It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.”
“The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.”
“In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.”
“That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.”
“In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.”
“Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.”
“Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.”