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More Quotes by Boris Pasternak
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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.
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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.
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
