And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart? — Boris Pasternak Destiny Copy Share Image
You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see… — Boris Pasternak Couple 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
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. — Boris Pasternak Art Copy Share Image
“Despite the absence of fetters, chains, and guards, the doctor was forced to submit to his unfreedom, which looked imaginary.” — Boris Pasternak Unfreedom Looked Copy Share Image
“Still more than by the communion of souls, they were united by the abyss that separated them from the rest of the… — Boris Pasternak Abyss Copy Share Image
In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved… — Boris Pasternak Belong 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
“If you go near her or touch her with your finger, a spark will light up the room and either kill you… — Boris Pasternak Desire 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 Marxism 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
“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 Belong 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
“The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected… — Boris Pasternak Duplicity 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 Beginning Copy Share Image
“As he scribbled his odds and ends, he made a note reaffirming his belief that art always serves beauty, and beauty is… — Boris Pasternak Art Copy Share Image
“I don't think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don't… — Boris Pasternak Beauty 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
Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable.… — Boris Pasternak Air Copy Share Image
Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing… — Boris Pasternak Air Copy Share Image
“After two or three stanzas and several images by which he was himself astonished, his work took possession of him and he… — Boris Pasternak Art Copy Share Image
The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it… — Boris Pasternak Body Copy Share Image
“Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death.… — Boris Pasternak Death Copy Share Image
“The Mother of God is asked to 'pray zealously to her Son and her God,' and the words of the psalm are… — Boris Pasternak Great men Copy Share Image
“We’ve been lucky. The autumn happened to be dry and warm. We managed to dig the potatoes before the rain and cold… — Boris Pasternak Harvested Copy Share Image
I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn… — Boris Pasternak Brute force Copy Share Image
The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My… — Boris Pasternak Afar Copy Share Image
And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a… — Boris Pasternak Genuine 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 arbitrariness of the revolutionaries is terrible not because they're villains, but because it's a mechanism out of control, like a machine… — Boris Pasternak Computers Copy Share Image
Mother Russia is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop. — Boris Pasternak Mother 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. — Boris Pasternak Earth Copy Share Image
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles… — Boris Pasternak Art Copy Share Image
“The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with subject matter itself, only with how much the subject matter touches the… — Boris Pasternak Books Copy Share Image
“It’s alleged that our scourge of God and punishment from heaven, Commissar Strelnikov, is Antipov come back to life. A legend, of… — Boris Pasternak Life 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
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very… — Boris Pasternak Concerned 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
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
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The… — Boris Pasternak Compassion Copy Share Image
