The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

Quote by Boris Pasternak

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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in...

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in...

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of...

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of...

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

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

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to...

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to...

No bad man can be a good poet.

No bad man can be a good poet.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though...

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though...

And she finally stopped playing their song, when she realized she was dancing alone.

And she finally stopped playing their song, when she realized she was dancing alone.

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and...

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and...

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although...

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although...

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will...

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will...

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life...

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life...

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take...

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take...

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I...

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I...

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible...

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible...

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life...

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life...

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you...

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you...

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of...

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of...