And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
Boris PasternakWhen 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 PasternakI am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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