A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a… — Boris Pasternak Conscious Copy Share Image
I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the… — Boris Pasternak Beast 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
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
“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
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently — Boris Pasternak Break 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
“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
“Ne pišem svoje biografije. Z njo se ukvarjam, ko mi je potrebna za tujo.” — Boris Pasternak 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
“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
“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 Life Copy Share Image
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to… — Boris Pasternak Anxious Copy Share Image
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. — Boris Pasternak Anniversary 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
“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
Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the… — Boris Pasternak Ends Copy Share Image
“The path trodden by wayfarers and pilgrims followed the railway and then turned into the fields. Here Lara stopped, closed her eyes… — Boris Pasternak Journey 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
Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts.… — Boris Pasternak Delight Copy Share Image
In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence,… — Boris Pasternak Age Copy Share Image
You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is… — Boris Pasternak Arms Copy Share Image
February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness… — Boris Pasternak Bells Copy Share Image