Boris Pasternak Quotes & Quotations

Boris Pasternak Quotes

» What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.

» No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

» 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 and not to prepare to live.

» That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

» As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

» No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

» What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

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