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 PasternakOh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.
Boris PasternakAs in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
Boris PasternakLiterature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Boris Pasternak