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 PASTERNAKAnd remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
-
-
Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
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 -
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
We must discover security within ourselves.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
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.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
BORIS PASTERNAK






