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More Quotes by Boris Pasternak
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.
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.
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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.
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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?
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
