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More Quotes by Boris Pasternak
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.
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.
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.
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.
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
