Boris Pasternak Quotes

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

Boris Pasternak

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.

Boris Pasternak

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Boris Pasternak

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

Boris Pasternak

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

Boris Pasternak