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. - Boris Pasternak Quotes
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. Boris Pasternak
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You fall into my arms. / You are the good gift of destruction's path, / When life sickens more than disease / And boldness is the root of beauty- / Which draws us together. - Boris Pasternak Quotes

You fall into my arms. / You are the good gift of destruction's path, / When life sickens more than disease / And boldness is the root of beauty- / Which draws us together.

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 Disease
Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life. - Boris Pasternak Quotes

Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.

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 Farewells
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light. - Boris Pasternak Quotes

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.

Boris Pasternak

 Russian Novelist
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John. - Boris Pasternak Quotes

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed. - Boris Pasternak Quotes

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

Boris Pasternak

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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 Quotes

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

 Russian Novelist
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 Quotes

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

 Russian Novelist
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman. - Boris Pasternak Quotes

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

Boris Pasternak

 
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live. - Boris Pasternak Quotes

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Boris Pasternak

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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. - Boris Pasternak Quotes

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

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