And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart? — Boris Pasternak Destiny Copy Share Image
You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see… — Boris Pasternak Couple Copy Share Image
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems… — Boris Pasternak Age Copy Share Image
“Still more than by the communion of souls, they were united by the abyss that separated them from the rest of the… — Boris Pasternak Abyss Copy Share Image
“Despite the absence of fetters, chains, and guards, the doctor was forced to submit to his unfreedom, which looked imaginary.” — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. — Boris Pasternak Art Copy Share Image
“If you go near her or touch her with your finger, a spark will light up the room and either kill you… — Boris Pasternak Desire Copy Share Image
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
It was not until after the coming of Christ that time and humans could breathe freely. It was not until after him… — 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 Life Copy Share Image
A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“It's good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn't correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected… — Boris Pasternak Duplicity Copy Share Image
What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death,… — Boris Pasternak Beginning Copy Share Image
“I don't think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don't… — Boris Pasternak Beauty Copy Share Image
“As he scribbled his odds and ends, he made a note reaffirming his belief that art always serves beauty, and beauty is… — Boris Pasternak Art Copy Share Image
“And now this mofiient also had come and gone. The dark- red sun still hung, round as a ball, above the blue… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“After two or three stanzas and several images by which he was himself astonished, his work took possession of him and he… — Boris Pasternak Art Copy Share Image
Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing… — 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 Consciousness Copy Share Image
“We’ve been lucky. The autumn happened to be dry and warm. We managed to dig the potatoes before the rain and cold… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“The Mother of God is asked to 'pray zealously to her Son and her God,' and the words of the psalm are… — Boris Pasternak Great men Copy Share Image
“Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death.… — Boris Pasternak Death Copy Share Image
I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn… — Boris Pasternak Brute force 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
The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Mother Russia is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop. — Boris Pasternak Mother Copy Share Image
“The arbitrariness of the revolutionaries is terrible not because they're villains, but because it's a mechanism out of control, like a machine… — Boris Pasternak Computers Copy Share Image
“You need to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar,… — Boris Pasternak Old life Copy Share Image
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles… — Boris Pasternak Art Copy Share Image
Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs. — Boris Pasternak Earth Copy Share Image
“The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with subject matter itself, only with how much the subject matter touches the… — Boris Pasternak Books 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 Life Copy Share Image
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very… — 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
He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and… — Boris Pasternak Art Copy Share Image
And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with… — Boris Pasternak Blessing Copy Share Image
You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is… — 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 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)
