244 Quotes by Boris Pasternak

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    Los niños son sinceros, no tienen prejuicios y no se avergüenzan de la verdad, mientras nosotros, por miedo de parecer atrasados, estamos siempre dispuestos a traicionar lo que nos es más querido, a elogiar cosas que nos repugnan y aceptar otras que no comprendemos.

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    Quando um homem pertence a um tipo determinado é porque está morto, condenado. E se ele não pertence a nenhuma das categorias catalogadas, se não é representativo de nenhuma, então tem já metade das qualidades que dele deveremos exigir: libertou-se de si mesmo, detém uma parcela da imortalidade.

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    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.

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    Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.

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    As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

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    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.

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