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More Quotes by 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.
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.
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.
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.
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
