I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom. — 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
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Now, as never before, it was clear to him that art is always, ceaselessly, occupied with two things. It constantly reflects on… — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them. — 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
“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
“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
“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 Copy Share Image
In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence,… — Boris Pasternak 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
The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it… — 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
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
“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
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
“No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.” — 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
“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
“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
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
