As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
An unshared happiness is not happiness. - Boris Pasternak
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
- Boris Pasternak
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. - Boris Pasternak
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune. - Boris Pasternak
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments. - Boris Pasternak
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. - Boris Pasternak
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it. - Boris Pasternak
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies. - Boris Pasternak
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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