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More Quotes by Boris Pasternak
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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.
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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.
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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.
