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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.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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.
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.
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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.
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
