More Quotes by Boris Pasternak
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.
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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.
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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.
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
