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Only the superfluous is dirty.
— Boris Pasternak
The trains either don't run at all or come so full that it is impossible to get on them.
— Boris Pasternak
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
— Boris Pasternak
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
She was obsessed with the idea of breaking with everything she had ever known or experienced, and starting on something new.
— Boris Pasternak
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
— Boris Pasternak
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
— Boris Pasternak
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
— Boris Pasternak
Life is not as easy as croosing a field
— Boris Pasternak
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
— Boris Pasternak
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
— Boris Pasternak
I was sent by God to torment / myself, my family, everyone / whom it's a sin to torment.
— Boris Pasternak
You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.
— Boris Pasternak
I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
— Boris Pasternak
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
— Boris Pasternak
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
— Boris Pasternak
We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.
— Boris Pasternak
I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
— Boris Pasternak
But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
— Boris Pasternak
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
— Boris Pasternak
Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
— Boris Pasternak
What an incorrigible nonentity one must be to play only one role in life, to occupy only one place in society, to always mean one and the same thing!
— Boris Pasternak
Thou hast spread Thy arms to embrace far too many,
Flinging Thy hands out till they reach the ends of the crossbeam. — Boris Pasternak
Flinging Thy hands out till they reach the ends of the crossbeam. — Boris Pasternak
It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
— Boris Pasternak
Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
— Boris Pasternak
You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.
— Joe Pasternak
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
— Boris Pasternak
They really thought what other people sing in songs.
— Boris Pasternak
To be a woman is a great adventure;
To drive men mad is a heroic thing. — Boris Pasternak
To drive men mad is a heroic thing. — Boris Pasternak
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 revealed its beauty to them.
— Boris Pasternak
Failure to love is almost like murder.
— Boris Pasternak
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
— Boris Pasternak
Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.
— Boris Pasternak
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
— Boris Pasternak
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
— Boris Pasternak
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.
— Boris Pasternak
Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great.
— Boris Pasternak
I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.
— Boris Pasternak
Only the superfluous is sordid
— Boris Pasternak
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
— Boris Pasternak
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
— Boris Pasternak
A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
— Boris Pasternak
Aren't we sensitive! We're something special. We're cultured. It's too much for us.
— Boris Pasternak
Beyond, pines hold sermons.
— Boris Pasternak
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
— Boris Pasternak
Her dark hair was scattered and its beauty stung his eyes like smoke and ate into his heart.
— Boris Pasternak
But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
— Boris Pasternak
Poetry searches for music amidst the tumult of the dictionary.
— Boris Pasternak
The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
— Boris Pasternak
Happy are the downtrodden.
— Boris Pasternak
You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
— Boris Pasternak
We must discover security within ourselves.
— Boris Pasternak
If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
— Boris Pasternak
Drying, the storm mumbles, / like a freshly washed apron.
— Boris Pasternak
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
— Boris Pasternak
Don't let my soul be riddled / by deceit: kill it or, / like fog, it will seep through / a heap of white chaff.
— Boris Pasternak
(Boris Pasternak described this phenomenon beautifully, when he wrote, "No genuine book has a first page.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
— Boris Pasternak
But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the world? = MEETING =
— Boris Pasternak
Still more than by the communion of souls, they were united by the abyss that separated them from the rest of the world.
— Boris Pasternak
No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.
— Boris Pasternak
The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with subject matter itself, only with how much the subject matter touches the author.
— Boris Pasternak
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
— Boris Pasternak
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
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
— Boris Pasternak
In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being.
— Boris Pasternak
I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
— Boris Pasternak
During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist ... literature had stopped.
— Boris Pasternak
I truly hope we have opened yet another door for women to share what they have been told they couldn't.
— Naava Pasternak Swirsky
As for the men in power,
they are so anxious to establish
the myth of infallibility that they
do their utmost to ignore truth. — Boris Pasternak
they are so anxious to establish
the myth of infallibility that they
do their utmost to ignore truth. — Boris Pasternak
And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
— Boris Pasternak
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
— Boris Pasternak
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
— Boris Pasternak
Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.
— Boris Pasternak
No bad man can be a good poet.
— Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak said that poetry makes itself from the relationship between the sounds and the meanings of words.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Ignore the scale, and make the process your goal.
— Harley Pasternak
While the music played a whole eternity went by like life in a novel
— Boris Pasternak
When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
— Boris Pasternak
The unarmed power of naked truth.
— Boris Pasternak
She has more names than petticoats.
— Boris Pasternak
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
— Boris Pasternak
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
— Boris Pasternak
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
— Boris Pasternak
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
— Boris Pasternak
And then the two basic ideals of modern man- without them he is unthinkable- the idea of free personality and the idea of life as sacrafice
— Boris Pasternak
She had once been the belle of her circle of small tradesmen and salesmen, but now her little pig eyes with their swollen lids could scarcely open.
— Boris Pasternak
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
— Boris Pasternak
Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
— Boris Pasternak