More Quotes by Boris Pasternak
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.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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.
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.
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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.
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.
