Boris Pasternak Quotes

“An unshared happiness is not happiness.”

“As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.”

“I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.”

“In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.”

“It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.”

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

“Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.”

“The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.”

“They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.”

“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.”