I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. - Boris Pasternak
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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