Quotes by Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak

… the unarmed power of naked truth.

Naked

Truth

Unarmed

A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one’s own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it’s like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you’d have a crash.

Fall

Insomnia

Light

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

Angel

Flames

Wings

A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov’s crime.

Art

Moving

Reading

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.

Matter

Memories

Soul

And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.

Death

Real

War

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.

Art

Joy

Keys

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

Art

Sacrifice

Spiritual

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

Copying

Might

Writing

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

Anxious

Men

Myth

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Age

Air

Alive

All Time

Angel

Anniversary

Anticipation

Anxious

Art

Assembly

Atheist

Auras

Banality

Beast

Believe

Book

Boredom

Break

Bye

Century

Change

Compassion

Complicated

Confused

Copying

Couple

Dear God

Death

Different

Division

Doctor Zhivago

Doctors

Doe

Dog

Dust

Ears

Echoes

Eternity

Eye

Failure

Faithfulness

Fall

Farewell

Faust

Feelings

Flames

Flower

Good Bye

Grateful

Heart

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Quotes by Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak

… the unarmed power of naked truth.

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

A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov’s crime.

And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.

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.

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

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