I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it. — Boris Pasternak Enough Copy Share Image
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world. — Boris Pasternak Erupt Copy Share Image
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently — Boris Pasternak Break Copy Share Image
And she finally stopped playing their song, when she realized she was dancing alone. — Boris Pasternak Dancing Copy Share Image
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing. — Boris Pasternak Grass Copy Share Image
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them. — Boris Pasternak Faithfulness 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
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 Identity 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 And love Copy Share Image
“She was incomparable in her inspired loveliness. Her arms amazed one, as one can be astonished by a lofty way of thinking.… — Boris Pasternak Astonished Copy Share Image
“In the waiting room, ladies in a picturesque group surrounded a table with magazines. They stood, sat, or half reclined in the… — Boris Pasternak Celebrity culture 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 Thy Hands Copy Share Image
“Ma che cos’è la storia? È un dar principio a lavori secolari per riuscire a poco a poco a risolvere il mistero… — Boris Pasternak Amor Copy Share Image
Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how… — Boris Pasternak Cold 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 Community Copy Share Image
“Winter had long since come. It was freezing cold. Torn-up sounds and forms appeared with no evident connection from the frosty mist,… — Boris Pasternak Fairy tale 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
“Ordinarily, people are anxious to test their theories in practice, to learn from experience, but those who wield power are so anxious… — Boris Pasternak Learn From Experience Copy Share Image
“With you I'm jealous of what is obscure, unconscious, of something in which explanations are unthinkable, of something that cannot be puzzled… — Boris Pasternak Jealous Copy Share Image
“In some men compassion for a woman goes beyond all conceivable limits. Their responsiveness places her in unrealizable positions, not to be… — Boris Pasternak Compassion Copy Share Image
I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with… — Boris Pasternak Bits 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 Doctor zhivago 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
“Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs. They… — Boris Pasternak Love Copy Share Image
“I have always thought that art is not a category, not a realm covering innumerable concepts and derivative phenomena, but that, on… — Boris Pasternak Art Copy Share Image
“Everything had changed suddenly--the tone, the moral climate; you didn't know what to think, whom to listen to. As if all your… — Boris Pasternak Changed 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 Art Copy Share Image
“Will you feel pain? Do the tissues feel their disintegration? In other words, what will happen to your consciousness? But what is… — Boris Pasternak Consciousness 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 Art 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 Atheist Copy Share Image
“Ever since childhood Yurii Andreievich had been fond of woods seen at evening against the setting sun. At such moments he felt… — Boris Pasternak Children Copy Share Image