“I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats - any kind of threat, whether… — Boris Pasternak Death Copy Share Image
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune. — Boris Pasternak Circumstances Copy Share Image
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales,… — Boris Pasternak Blades Copy Share Image
A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals… — Boris Pasternak Appeals 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
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every… — Boris Pasternak Embrace 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 Electromagnetic waves 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 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
Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it. — Boris Pasternak Art 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
“Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the… — Boris Pasternak Atheism 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
“There shall be no more death, Because we have already seen all that, Its old and we are tired of it, And… — Boris Pasternak Death 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
“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its… — Boris Pasternak Beauty 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
Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept… — Boris Pasternak Changed 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
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning. — Boris Pasternak Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel… — Boris Pasternak Health 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
