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More Quotes by Boris Pasternak
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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.
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
