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.
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.
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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.
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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?
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.