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> [If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boris-pasternak/if-you-want-to-know-life-is-the-principle-of-self-renewal-it-is/)

[Boris Pasternak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boris-pasternak/)

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## More by Boris Pasternak

> [“Happy are the downtrodden.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boris-pasternak/happy-are-the-downtrodden/)

[Boris Pasternak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boris-pasternak/)

> [“The saddest thing of all was that their party represented a deviation from the conditions of the time. It was impossible to imagine that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boris-pasternak/the-saddest-thing-of-all-was-that-their-party-represented-a-deviation/)

[Boris Pasternak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boris-pasternak/)

> [No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boris-pasternak/no-deep-and-strong-feeling-such-as-we-may-come-across-here-and-there/)

[Boris Pasternak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boris-pasternak/)

> [She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boris-pasternak/she-was-here-on-earth-to-make-sense-of-its-wild-enchantments/)

[Boris Pasternak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boris-pasternak/)

> [Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boris-pasternak/art-has-two-constant-two-unending-concerns-it-always-meditates-on/)

[Boris Pasternak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boris-pasternak/)

> [I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boris-pasternak/i-think-that-if-the-beast-who-sleeps-in-man-could-be-held-down-by/)

[Boris Pasternak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boris-pasternak/)

> [And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boris-pasternak/and-so-it-turned-out-that-only-a-life-similar-to-the-life-of-those/)

[Boris Pasternak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boris-pasternak/)

> [I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boris-pasternak/i-come-here-to-speak-poetry-it-will-always-be-in-the-grass-it-will/)

[Boris Pasternak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boris-pasternak/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boris-pasternak/i-ll-stay-with-you-a-little-my-unforgettable-delight-for-as-long-as/)

[Boris Pasternak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boris-pasternak/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boris-pasternak/if-it-s-so-painful-to-love-and-absorb-electricity-how-much-more/)

[Boris Pasternak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boris-pasternak/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boris-pasternak/i-don-t-like-purely-philosophical-works-i-think-a-little-philosophy/)

[Boris Pasternak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boris-pasternak/)

> [“But sometimes, to enable her to bear her life, she needed the accompaniment of an inward music and she could not always compose it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boris-pasternak/but-sometimes-to-enable-her-to-bear-her-life-she-needed-the/)

[Boris Pasternak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boris-pasternak/)

> [“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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boris-pasternak/we-ve-been-lucky-the-autumn-happened-to-be-dry-and-warm-we-managed-to/)

[Boris Pasternak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boris-pasternak/)

> [Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boris-pasternak/departure-beyond-the-borders-of-my-country-is-for-me-equivalent-to/)

[Boris Pasternak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boris-pasternak/)

> [“As he scribbled his odds and ends, he made a note reaffirming his belief that art always serves beauty, and beauty is delight in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boris-pasternak/as-he-scribbled-his-odds-and-ends-he-made-a-note-reaffirming-his/)

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