More Quotes by Boris Pasternak
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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.
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
