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More Quotes by Boris Pasternak
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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.
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.
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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.
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
