When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
Boris PasternakArt is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
Boris PasternakIn life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
Boris PasternakAt the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
Boris PasternakOh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!
Boris Pasternak