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More Quotes by Boris Pasternak
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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.
When 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.
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
