More Quotes by Boris Pasternak
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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.
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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.
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
