Boris Pasternak
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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.
In the presence of wrong companions, it's always very difficult to achieve our dreams, so it's very important to be very careful with our choice of companionship if we really want to succeed.
We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.
Poetry is life, without it, being ceases.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
I'm all for same-sex marriage.
I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
You can be happy where you are.
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