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From Quotes by Boris Pasternak
- It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
- Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
- February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring.…
- It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he were, it would…
- But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the…
- Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently…
- I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make…
- 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…
- 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…
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