At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
Boris PasternakWhat for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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