Quotes by Boris Pasternak

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And Soviet writer · Russian · 1890–1960

Russian and Soviet writer (1890–1960)

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“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

Simple Speak Down

“All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.”

— Boris Pasternak

mothers

“The main misfortune, the root of all the evil to come, was the loss of confidence in the value of ones own opinion. People imagined that it was out of date to follow their own moral sense, that the...”

— Boris Pasternak

opinion russia social-evils untruth

“In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.”

— Boris Pasternak

truth

“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 end of him as a man. But if you can´t place him in a category, it means that ...”

— Boris Pasternak

humanity personality

“They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the “blaze of passion” often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds an...”

— Boris Pasternak

love passion