Author: Boris Pasternak

Quotes

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

- 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.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

- Boris Pasternak

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

- 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.

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.

- Boris Pasternak

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.

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.

- Boris Pasternak

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

- Boris Pasternak

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

- Boris Pasternak

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.

- Boris Pasternak

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

- Boris Pasternak

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