Quotes by : Boris Pasternak

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Life itself, the phenomenon of life, the gift of life,....

The sky, drunk with spring and giddy with its fumes, thickened with clouds. Low clouds, drooping at the....

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

I am weary of this notion of faithfulness to a point of view at all cost. Life around us is ever changing,....

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without....

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions,....

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

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary....

Or again, take your red banner. You think it's a flag, isn't that what you think? Well, it isn't a flag.....