Fear has the largest eyes of all.
—Boris Pasternak
Topics: Fear
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
Topics: Truth, Living
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.
—Boris Pasternak
Topics: Atheism
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.
—Boris Pasternak
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
—Boris Pasternak
Topics: Isolation
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.
—Boris Pasternak
Topics: Difficulties, Difficulty, Adversity
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.
—Boris Pasternak
Topics: Kindness, Compassion
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
—Boris Pasternak
Topics: Life and Living
That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
—Boris Pasternak
Topics: Philosophy
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
—Boris Pasternak
Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one’s stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
—Boris Pasternak
Topics: Work
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