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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.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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.
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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.
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.
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
