More Quotes by Boris Pasternak
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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.
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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.
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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 life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
