In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it. — Boris Pasternak
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies. — Boris Pasternak
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world. — Boris Pasternak
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: it always meditates on death and thus always creates life. — Boris Pasternak
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
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. — Boris Pasternak
That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it. — Boris Pasternak
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth. — Boris Pasternak
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. — Boris Pasternak
It brings back the forgotten; one’s stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life. — Boris Pasternak