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Best Quotes by Boris Pasternak (Top 10)

  1. 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.
  2. When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
  3. About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but it seems to me it´s just the contrary. Often it´s something you paid no attention to at the time — a vague thought that you didn´t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed — these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.
  4. To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
  5. Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
  6. They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet.
  7. Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
  8. You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
  9. Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.
  10. And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

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