Russian - Novelist | January 29, 1890 - May 30, 1960
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
Boris Pasternak
LifeGiftSurpriseGreatest GiftUs
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
ThankfulGratefulProudTouched
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
ArtWordsPeopleSayingLiterature
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
LoveMarriageAnniversaryLove Is
No bad man can be a good poet.
GoodManBadPoetBad Man
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
LifeGreatArtDeathGenuineAlways
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
AloneMomentWomanIsolationShe
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
TruthPowerMenIgnoreMythAnxious
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
WorldWonderfulThingsSawWould
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
TruthPowerManBeastAboveRaised
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
LiveManBrainyBornPrepare
You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.
LifeGoodBeautyPathTogetherGift
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Boris Pasternak quotes