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Boris Pasternak QUOTES

181 " Akhmatova "

― Boris Pasternak , Four of Us: Pasternak, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam

182 " The position could not have been made clearer, whatever had been said, not only to those directly involved but to Sasha, Nyusha and Bacchus; their painful embarrassment communicated itself even to the mare, the foal, the golden rays of the setting sun and the gnats buzzing and swarming around Helen's face and neck. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

183 " But all the time one and the same boundlessly identical life fills the universe and is renewed every hour in countless combinations and transformations. Here you have fears about whether you will resurrect, yet you already resurrected when you were born, and you didn't notice it. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

184 " Aren't we sensitive! We're something special. We're cultured. It's too much for us. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

185 " Only the superfluous is sordid "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

186 " Но пройдут такие трое суток
И столкнут в такую пустоту,
Что за этот страшный промежуток
Я до Воскресенья дорасту. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

187 " От всичко руско сега най-много обичам руската детска наивност на Пушкин и Чехов, тяхното свенливо чуждеене от такива гръмки неща като крайните цели на човечеството и собственото спасение. И те са наясно по всички подобни въпроси, но къде ти такива нескромности — не е за тях работа и не им приляга! Гогол, Толстой, Достоевски се готвят за смъртта, безпокоят се, дирят смисъла, теглят чертата — а тези докрая се отвличат по текущите частни въпроси на артистичното призвание, покрай тяхното редуване неусетно изживяват живота си пак като лична, никого незасягаща частна работа и сега този частен въпрос се оказва общо дело и подобно на откъсната от дървото зелена ябълка доузрява в приемствеността и се изпълва с все повече сладост и смисъл. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

188 " I think that collectivization was an erroneous and unsuccessful measure and it was impossible to admit the error. To conceal the failure people had to be cured, by every means of terrorism, of the habit of thinking and judging for themselves, and forced to see what didn't exist, to assert the very opposite of what their eyes told them. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

189 " „Тя не държи да се харесва — мислеше си той, — да бъде красива, чаровна. Пренебрегва тази страна от женската същност и сякаш сама се наказва, задето е толкова хубава. И тази горда враждебност към себе си десеторно увеличава чара й.

Колко е хубаво всичко, което прави. Чете така, сякаш това не е висша човешка дейност, а е нещо най-просто, достъпно и за животните. Все едно носи вода или бели картофи.“

Покрай тези размишления докторът се поуспокои. Рядко спокойствие обзе душата му. Мислите му престанаха да бягат и да прескачат от едно на друго. Той се усмихна неволно. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

190 " It occurred to her that when people were drunk they always tried to impersonate drunkards, and the drunker they were the more they overacted. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

191 " In one corner the piano tuner scattered arpeggios live handfuls of beads. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

192 " Am un chef incredibil, pătimaş de viaţă şi a trăi înseamnă a te avânta înainte, mai sus, către perfecţiunea pe care trebuie s-o atingi. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

193 " Intotdeauna omul neliber îşi idealizează nelibertatea. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

194 " The tsar was pitiable on that gray and warm mountain morning, and it was eerie to think that such timorous reserve and shyness could be the essence of an oppressor, that this weakness could punish and pardon, bind and loose. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

195 " You don't understand that one can be an atheist, one can not know whether God exists or why, and at the same time know that man does not live in nature but in history, and that in present-day understanding it was founded by Christ, that its foundation is the Gospel. And what is history? It is the setting in motion of centuries of work at the gradual unriddling of death and its eventual overcoming. Hence the discovery of mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, hence the writing of symphonies. It is impossible to move on in that direction without a certain uplift. These discoveries call for spiritual equipment. The grounds for it are contained in the Gospel. They are these. First, love of one's neighbor, that highest form of living energy, overflowing man's heart and demanding to be let out and spent, and then the main component parts of modern man, without which he is unthinkable-- namely, the idea of the free person and the idea of life as sacrifice. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

196 " Where the pond's an open secret, where apple-trees whisper of waves, where the garden hanging on piles, holds the sky before its face. "

― Boris Pasternak

197 " Переделка жизни! Так могут рассуждать люди, хотя, может быть, и видавшие виды, но ни разу не узнавшие жизни, не почувствовавшие её духа, души её. Для них существование - это комок грубого, не облагороженного их прикосновением материала, нуждающегося в их обработке. А материалом, веществом, жизнь никогда не бывает. Она сама, если хотите знать, непрерывано себя обновляющее, вечно себя перерабатывающее начало, она сама вечно себя переделывает и претворяет, она сама куда выше наших с вами тупоумных теорий. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

198 " The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say. "

― Boris Pasternak

199 " Don't let my soul be riddled / by deceit: kill it or, / like fog, it will seep through / a heap of white chaff. "

― Boris Pasternak , My Sister - Life

200 " Poetry searches for music amidst the tumult of the dictionary. "

― Boris Pasternak