Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
BORIS PASTERNAKOh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
BORIS PASTERNAKImmensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
BORIS PASTERNAKIt is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
BORIS PASTERNAKYou and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
BORIS PASTERNAKBut the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
BORIS PASTERNAKNo bad man can be a good poet.
BORIS PASTERNAKAnd so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
BORIS PASTERNAKAll mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
BORIS PASTERNAKLove is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
BORIS PASTERNAKDeparture beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
BORIS PASTERNAKArt is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
BORIS PASTERNAKI am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
BORIS PASTERNAKSalvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
BORIS PASTERNAKThe whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
BORIS PASTERNAKNo single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
BORIS PASTERNAKWhen 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.
BORIS PASTERNAK