He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities. — Boris Pasternak Banality Copy Share Image
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth — Boris Pasternak Beast Copy Share Image
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say. — Boris Pasternak Art Copy Share Image
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt? — Boris Pasternak Alive Copy Share Image
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you… — Boris Pasternak Despise Copy Share Image
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death. — Boris Pasternak Borders Copy Share Image
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments. — Boris Pasternak Earth Copy Share Image
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies. — Boris Pasternak Dies Copy Share Image
“She was obsessed with the idea of breaking with everything she had ever known or experienced, and starting on something new.” — Boris Pasternak Fresh start Copy Share Image
If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the… — Boris Pasternak Electricity Copy Share Image
“And then the two basic ideals of modern man- without them he is unthinkable- the idea of free personality and the idea… — Boris Pasternak Life Copy Share Image
It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table;… — Boris Pasternak Burned Copy Share Image
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The… — Boris Pasternak Compassion Copy Share Image
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and… — Boris Pasternak Concern Copy Share Image
I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to… — Boris Pasternak Grass Copy Share Image
“Who does more for a nation--the one who makes a fuss about it or the one who, without thinking of it, raises… — Boris Pasternak Beauty Copy Share Image
“And then, amidst the joy that grips everyone, I meet your mysteriously mirthless gaze, wandering no one knows where, in some far-off… — Boris Pasternak Joy 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
“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
They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other… — Boris Pasternak Clouds Copy Share Image
“It seemed as if the valley were not always girded by woods, growing on the surrounding hills and facing away from the… — Boris Pasternak Beauty Copy Share Image
“I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats - any kind of threat, whether… — Boris Pasternak Death 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
“You come out; it is still dark. The door creaks, or perhaps you sneeze, or the snow crunches under your foot, and… — Boris Pasternak Long time 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
“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 Harvested Copy Share Image
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much… — Boris Pasternak Done 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 Closed door Copy Share Image
“The rulers of your minds indulge in proverbs, but they've forgotten the main one, that love cannot be forced, and they have… — Boris Pasternak Authoritarianism Copy Share Image
“I'll stay with you a little, my unforgettable delight, for as long as my arms and my hands and my lips remember… — Boris Pasternak Endure Copy Share Image
“You don't understand that one can be an atheist, one can not know whether God exists or why, and at the same… — Boris Pasternak Electromagnetic waves Copy Share Image
“Language, the homeland and receptacle of beauty and meaning, itself begins to think and speak for man and turns wholly into music,… — Boris Pasternak Beauty Copy Share Image
