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Boris Pasternak Quotes

«That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.»
«What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.»
«What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.»
«A corner draft fluttered the flame, and the white fever of temptation, upswept its angel wings that cast , a cruciform shadow.»
«At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.»
«No bad man can be a good poet.»
«Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.»
Author: Boris Pasternak | About: Art
«As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.»
«Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.»
Author: Boris Pasternak | Keywords: abash, abashed
«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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