I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Ne pišem svoje biografije. Z njo se ukvarjam, ko mi je potrebna za tujo.” — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities. — Boris Pasternak 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
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it. — Boris Pasternak 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
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth — Boris Pasternak Beast 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
He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“She was incomparable in her inspired loveliness. Her arms amazed one, as one can be astonished by a lofty way of thinking.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Thou hast spread Thy arms to embrace far too many, Flinging Thy hands out till they reach the ends of the crossbeam.” — Boris Pasternak 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
Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how… — Boris Pasternak Cold 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 Amor 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
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated.… — Boris Pasternak 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
“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
“Ordinarily, people are anxious to test their theories in practice, to learn from experience, but those who wield power are so anxious… — Boris Pasternak Learn From Experience 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 Copy Share Image
“In some men compassion for a woman goes beyond all conceivable limits. Their responsiveness places her in unrealizable positions, not to be… — Boris Pasternak Compassion Copy Share Image
I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail… — Boris Pasternak Beast Copy Share Image
“And if he were really to do good he would have needed in addition to his principles, a heart capable of violating… — Boris Pasternak Heart Copy Share Image
What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists… — Boris Pasternak Atheism 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
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
“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 Consciousness 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 Copy Share Image
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres,… — Boris Pasternak Ability Copy Share Image
“They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the “blaze of passion” often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other… — Boris Pasternak Love Copy Share Image
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt? — Boris Pasternak Alive Copy Share Image
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say. — Boris Pasternak Art Copy Share Image
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death. — Boris Pasternak Borders 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 Copy Share Image
“No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.” — Boris Pasternak 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 point. Let's try to find out. What is it about you that you have always known as yourself? What are you conscious of in yourself? Your kidneys? Your liver?…” quote by Boris Pasternak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58e/boris-pasternak-1944_consciousness_so-what-will-happen-to-your-consciousnes_2723397.png)
