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
“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
He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great… — Boris Pasternak Children 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
“I don't know a movement more self-centered and further removed from the facts than Marxism. Everyone is worried only about proving himself… — Boris Pasternak Truth 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
“They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the “blaze of passion” often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other… — Boris Pasternak Love Copy Share Image
“You said that facts are meaningless, unless meanings are put into them. Well, Christianity, the mystery of the individual, is precisely what… — Boris Pasternak Christianity Copy Share Image
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt? — Boris Pasternak Alive 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 Hotel room Copy Share Image
“Three years of changes, moves, uncertainties, upheavals; the war, the revolution; scenes of destruction, scenes of death, shelling, blown-up bridges, fires, ruins—all… — Boris Pasternak Adventure Copy Share Image
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no… — Boris Pasternak Art 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
Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge… — Boris Pasternak Eloquence Copy Share Image
“Yurii Andreievich kept trying to get up and go. The commissar's naïveté embarrassed him, but the sly sophistication of the commandant and… — Boris Pasternak Learning 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 Century 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
“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 Children Copy Share Image
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems… — Boris Pasternak Age 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
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
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. — Boris Pasternak Greatest gift Copy Share Image
“You are anxious about whether you will rise from the dead or not, but you rose from the dead when you were… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
