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More Quotes by Boris Pasternak
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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 every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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 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.
