They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Art embodies beauty, which is essential for life and existence.
This quote by Boris Pasternak emphasizes the intrinsic relationship between art, beauty, and life. It suggests that art serves as a vessel for beauty, which in turn is fundamental to the very existence of life, as all living things are defined by their form. Without form, there can be no life, and thus, the appreciation of beauty through art is integral to the human experience.
Themes
ArtBeautyLifeFormExistence
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech on the importance of art in education.
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