The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.” — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself... — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“What an incorrigible nonentity one must be to play only one role in life, to occupy only one place in society, to… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“But sometimes, to enable her to bear her life, she needed the accompaniment of an inward music and she could not always… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“I'm broken, I have a crack in me for all my life. I was made a woman prematurely, criminally early, and initiated… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“For as long as he could remember he had never ceased to wonder why, having arms and legs like everyone else, and… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Man in other people is man’s soul. That is what you are, that is what your conscience breathed, relished, was nourished by… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“They loved each other greatly. Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it. To them - and… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
And now listen carefully. You in others-this is your soul. This is what you are. This is what your consciousness has breathed… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
It's only in bad novels that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“The unforeseen is the most beautiful gift life can give us. That is what we must think of multiplying in our domain.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Three years of changes, moves, uncertainties, upheavals; the war, the revolution; scenes of destruction, scenes of death, shelling, blown-up bridges, fires, ruins—all… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Resurrection. In the crude form in which it is preached to console the weak, it is alien to me. I have always… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Everything had changed suddenly--the tone, the moral climate; you didn't know what to think, whom to listen to. As if all your… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life-- as if life could… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“So what will happen to your consciousness [after you die]? *Your* consciousness, yours, not anyone else's. Well, what are *you*? There's the… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“It’s alleged that our scourge of God and punishment from heaven, Commissar Strelnikov, is Antipov come back to life. A legend, of… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“The saddest thing of all was that their party represented a deviation from the conditions of the time. It was impossible to imagine that… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share
I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share
And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share
I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share
“I'll stay with you a little, my unforgettable delight, for as long as my arms and my hands and my lips remember you. I'll… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share
If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share
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… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share
“But sometimes, to enable her to bear her life, she needed the accompaniment of an inward music and she could not always compose it… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share
“We’ve been lucky. The autumn happened to be dry and warm. We managed to dig the potatoes before the rain and cold set in.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share
“As he scribbled his odds and ends, he made a note reaffirming his belief that art always serves beauty, and beauty is delight in… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share
![“So what will happen to your consciousness [after you die]? *Your* consciousness, yours, not anyone else's. Well, what are *you*? There's the point. Let's try to find out. What is it about you that you have always known as yourself? What are you conscious of in yourself? Your kidneys? Your liver?…” quote by Boris Pasternak](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/58e/boris-pasternak-1944_consciousness_so-what-will-happen-to-your-consciousnes_2723397.png)
