Quotes by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

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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 — Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by i — Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression — Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
Her dark hair was scattered and its beauty stung his eyes like smoke and ate into his heart. — Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and — Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditat — Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living — Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
After two or three stanzas and several images by which he was himself astonished, his work took possession of him and he — Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
How well she does everything! She reads not as if reading were the highest human activity, but as if it were the simples — Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
This was the sickness of the age, the revolutionary madness of the epoch. In thought everyone was different from his wor — Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he were, it would be the — Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splas — Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
The wind swept the snow aside, ever faster and thicker, as if it were trying to catch up with something, and Yurii Andre — Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
An old Russian folk song is like water held back by a dam. It looks as if it were still and were no longer flowing, but — Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved eac — Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the “blaze of passion” often falsely ascribed to love. They loved eac — Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
It's only in mediocre books that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life — Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the — Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
The saddest thing of all was that their party represented a deviation from the conditions of the time. It was impossible — Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
It seemed as if the valley were not always girded by woods, growing on the surrounding hills and facing away from the ho — Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago