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More Quotes by Boris Pasternak
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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.
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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.
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
