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
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
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
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
“The main trouble, the root of the future evil, was loss of faith in the value of one’s own opinion. People imagined… — Boris Pasternak Faith Copy Share Image
If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself... — Boris Pasternak Identity Copy Share Image
“It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life-- as if life could… — Boris Pasternak Art Copy Share Image
He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but… — Boris Pasternak And love 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 Copy Share Image
“No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.” — Boris Pasternak History 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
“They loved each other greatly. Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it. To them - and… — Boris Pasternak Doctor zhivago 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
But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are… — Boris Pasternak Idle Copy Share Image
“So what will happen to your consciousness [after you die]? *Your* consciousness, yours, not anyone else's. Well, what are *you*? There's the… — Boris Pasternak Identity Copy Share Image
“This was a time to prepare for the cold weather, to store up fire and wood. But in those days of the… — Boris Pasternak Cold weather 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
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
About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you… — Boris Pasternak Attention Copy Share Image
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. — Boris Pasternak Abandoned Copy Share Image
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it. — Boris Pasternak Fall Copy Share Image
“Ma che cos’è la storia? È un dar principio a lavori secolari per riuscire a poco a poco a risolvere il mistero… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them. — Boris Pasternak Faithfulness Copy Share Image
