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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.
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
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.
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.
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.
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.
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
