35 Inspirational Boris Pasternak Quotes On Success

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian Empire and Soviet poet, novelist, and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pasternak’s first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language. Pasternak translated stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderón de la Barca and Shakespeare — these remain very popular with Russian audiences. He is also the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel that takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Second World War. May these Boris Pasternak Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.

1. “If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.” Boris Pasternak

2. “As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.” Boris Pasternak

3. “They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.” Boris Pasternak

4. “Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.” Boris Pasternak

5. “We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.” Boris Pasternak

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

7. “Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.” Boris Pasternak

8. “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 we were taught.” Boris Pasternak

9. “Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.” Boris Pasternak

10. “Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.” Boris Pasternak

11. “How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.” Boris Pasternak

12. “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.” Boris Pasternak

13. “And now listen carefully. You in others-this is your soul. This is what you are. This is what your consciousness has breathed and lived on and enjoyed throughout your life-your soul, your immortality, your life in others. And what now? You have always been in others and you will remain in others. And what does it matter to you if later on that is called your memory? This will be you-the you that enters the future and becomes a part of it.” Boris Pasternak

14. “It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.” Boris Pasternak

15. “I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.” Boris Pasternak

16. “Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.” Boris Pasternak

17. “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.” Boris Pasternak

18. “The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.” Boris Pasternak

19. “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

20. “Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.” Boris Pasternak

21. “And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.” Boris Pasternak

22. “She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.” Boris Pasternak

23. “But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.” Boris Pasternak

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

25. “Here they are, all in one place. Circle back to them when you need some poetic shine. It is not revolutions and upheavals that clear the road to better days, but revelations, and lavishness of someone’s soul inspired, and ablaze.” Boris Pasternak

26. “Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.” Boris Pasternak

27. “About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but it seems to me it´s just the contrary. Often it´s something you paid no attention to at the time — a vague thought that you didn´t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed — these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.” Boris Pasternak

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

29. “And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?” Boris Pasternak

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

31. “An unshared happiness is not happiness.” Boris Pasternak

32. “Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten, one’s stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.” Boris Pasternak

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

34. “It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table, A candle burned.” Boris Pasternak

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

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