No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. — Boris Pasternak Anniversary Copy Share Image
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing. — Boris Pasternak Adventure Copy Share Image
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it. — Boris Pasternak 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
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. — Boris Pasternak 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
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 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
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
“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
“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
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. — Boris Pasternak Art 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 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 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 position could not have been made clearer, whatever had been said, not only to those directly involved but to Sasha, Nyusha… — Boris Pasternak Embarrassment 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 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
It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“They all laughed and clapped, taking it for a deliberate witticism, while he had no idea what he was saying, so great… — Boris Pasternak Happiness Copy Share Image
You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Yurii Andreievich kept trying to get up and go. The commissar's naïveté embarrassed him, but the sly sophistication of the commandant and… — Boris Pasternak Learning Copy Share Image
“Resurrection. In the crude form in which it is preached to console the weak, it is alien to me. I have always… — Boris Pasternak Animal life 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 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
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
“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
Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
