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More Quotes by Boris Pasternak
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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.
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.
