Quotes by : Boris Pasternak

The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound....

No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.

The saddest thing of all was that their party represented a deviation from the conditions of the time.....

You said that facts are meaningless, unless meanings are put into them. Well, Christianity, the mystery....

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much....

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it....

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life.....

How well she does everything! She reads not as if reading were the highest human activity, but as if....

It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life-- as if life....

It's only in mediocre books that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other.....