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Boris Pasternak Quotes

Boris Pasternak quotes about life

Russian Novelist, Writer February 10, 1890 – May 30, 1960

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I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish."- Lara, from Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John. Boris Pasternak
You need to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar, peaceful days, in the old life that was now abolished and gone for good. Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak quote: "All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their..."
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them. Boris Pasternak
He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life. Boris Pasternak
I'm broken, I have a crack in me for all my life. I was made a woman prematurely, criminally early, and initiated into life from its worst side, in the false, boulevard interpretation of a self-confident aging parasite from former times, who profited from everything and allowed himself everything. Boris Pasternak
The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Boris Pasternak
If you go near her or touch her with your finger, a spark will light up the room and either kill you on the spot or electrify you for your whole life with a magnetically attractive, plaintive craving and sorrow. Boris Pasternak
And then the two basic ideals of modern man- without them he is unthinkable- the idea of free personality and the idea of life as sacrafice Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak quote: "Man is born to live, not to prepare for life."
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak quote: "Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us."
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak quote: "I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so..."
I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom. Boris Pasternak
What an incorrigible nonentity one must be to play only one role in life, to occupy only one place in society, to always mean one and the same thing! Boris Pasternak
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. Boris Pasternak

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