#Quote
More Quotes by Boris Pasternak
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
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.
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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.
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
