The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
BORIS PASTERNAKAt the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
-
-
You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
BORIS PASTERNAK -
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
Failure to love is almost like murder.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
No bad man can be a good poet.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
BORIS PASTERNAK