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 Beauty 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
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say. — Boris Pasternak Art 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 Animal life Copy Share Image
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing. — Boris Pasternak Adventure Copy Share Image
“Thou hast spread Thy arms to embrace far too many, Flinging Thy hands out till they reach the ends of the crossbeam.” — 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
“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
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
When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart,… — Boris Pasternak Doors 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
“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 Individuality 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
“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
“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
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
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities. — Boris Pasternak Banality Copy Share Image
“The position could not have been made clearer, whatever had been said, not only to those directly involved but to Sasha, Nyusha… — Boris Pasternak Embarrassment 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
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
“They all laughed and clapped, taking it for a deliberate witticism, while he had no idea what he was saying, so great… — Boris Pasternak Happiness Copy Share Image
