Boris Pasternak Quotes

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

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.

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.

Failure to love is almost like murder.