The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning. — Boris Pasternak Inspirational Copy Share Image
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it. — Boris Pasternak Fool Copy Share Image
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death. — Boris Pasternak Borders Copy Share Image
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you… — Boris Pasternak Despise Copy Share Image
“No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.” — Boris Pasternak Grass Copy Share Image
During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped. — Boris Pasternak Books 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
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated.… — Boris Pasternak Complicated 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 Death 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… — Boris Pasternak Heart Copy Share Image
But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used… — Boris Pasternak Division Copy Share Image
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by… — Boris Pasternak Believe 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 Enchantment Copy Share Image
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
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
“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 Broken 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,… — Boris Pasternak Art Copy Share Image
“How intense can be the longing to escape from the emptiness and dullness of human verbosity, to take refuge in nature, apparently… — Boris Pasternak Introversion 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
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 Books 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 Consciousness 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 Life Copy Share Image
It was not until after the coming of Christ that time and humans could breathe freely. It was not until after him… — Boris Pasternak Breathe 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
“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
“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
“February Boris Pasternak It's February. Get ink. Weep. Write the heart out about it, sing Another song of February While raucous slush… — Boris Pasternak Flower 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… — Boris Pasternak Endure Copy Share Image
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres,… — Boris Pasternak Ability 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
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much… — Boris Pasternak Done Copy Share Image
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt? — Boris Pasternak Alive Copy Share Image
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them. — Boris Pasternak Disappoint Copy Share Image
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it. — Boris Pasternak Dear Copy Share Image
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it. — Boris Pasternak Experience love Copy Share Image
I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom. — Boris Pasternak Boredom 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
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities. — Boris Pasternak Banality Copy Share Image
