Doctor Zhivago QUOTES

181 " I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's speciality seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

182 " Now, as never before, it was clear to him that art is always, ceaselessly, occupied with two things. It constantly reflects on death and thereby constantly creates life. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

183 " More vividly than ever before he realized that art has two constant, two unending concerns: it always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St. John. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

184 " Orioles kept making their clear three-note calls, stopping each time just long enough to let the countryside suck in the moist fluting sounds down to the last vibration. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

185 " Unshared happiness is not happiness. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

186 " They had the boastful, dead eternity of bronze monuments and marble columns. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

187 " Hamlet:

The murmurs ebb; onto the stage I enter.
I am trying, standing in the door,
To discover in the distant echoes
What the coming years may hold in store.

The nocturnal darkness with a thousand
Binoculars is focused onto me.
Take away this cup, O Abba, Father,
Everything is possible to thee.

I am fond of this thy stubborn project,
And to play my part I am content.
But another drama is in progress,
And, this once, O let me be exempt.

But the plan of action is determined,
And the end irrevocably sealed.
I am alone; all round me drowns in falsehood:
Life is not a walk across a field. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

188 " Хамлет

Спря шумът. На Сцената съм вече.
До вратата плътно прилепен,
аз долавям в отгласа далечен
всичко, дето ще се случи с мен.

Мракът на нощта е в мен насочен,
с хиляди бинокли ме следи.
Само тая чаша, Ава Отче,
днес да ме отмине отреди.

Вярвам, твоят замисъл голям е,
ще играя ролята докрай,
но това сега е друга драма
и отсрочка тоя път ми дай.

Но подред, обмислено се действа;
и на пътя ти стои черта.
Аз съм сам. Във всичко — фарисейство.
Не от ден до пладне — до смъртта!

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Гамлет

Гул затих. Я вышел на подмостки.
Прислонясь к дверному косяку,
Я ловлю в далёком отголоске
Что случится на моём веку́.

На меня наставлен сумрак но́чи
Тысячью биноклей на оси́.
Если только можно, Авва, Отче,
Чашу эту мимо пронеси.

Я люблю твой замысел упрямый
И играть согласен эту роль.
Но сейчас идёт другая драма,
И на этот раз меня уволь.

Но продуман распорядок действий,
И неотвратим конец пути.
Я один, всё тонет в фарисействе.
Жизнь прожить — не поле перейти. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

189 " Io non amo la gente perfetta, quelli che non sono mai caduti, non hanno inciampato. La loro è una virtù spenta, di poco valore. A loro non si è svelata la bellezza della vita. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

190 " Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

191 " Più di una volta ho notato che proprio le cose cui si è appena badato durante il giorno, le idee non chiarite, le parole dette senza pensarci e alle quali non si è prestata attenzione tornano di notte in immagini concrete e vive, e diventano oggetto di sogni, quasi a rivalsa di essere state tarscurate. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

192 " Then untruth came to the Russian land. The main trouble, the root of the future evil, was loss of faith in the value of one’s own opinion. People imagined that the time when they followed the urgings of their moral sense was gone, that now they had to sing to the general tune and live by foreign notions imposed on everyone. The dominion of the ready-made phrase began to grow—first monarchistic, then revolutionary. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

193 " Ergueu a cabeça e, de cima do montículo, envolveu com um olhar ausente a vastidão deserta desse Outono e as cúpulas do mosteiro. O seu rosto, de nariz arrebitado, contraiu-se. Alongou o pescoço. Esse movimento de cabeça, num lobozinho, seria indício de que ia pôr-se a uivar. Com o rosto nas mãos, o pequeno desatou a chorar. Uma nuvem que corria ao seu encontro começou a vergastá-lo nas mãos e na face com as cordas de uma chuva gelada. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

194 " It has already been so several times in history. What was conceived as ideal and lofty became coarse and material. So Greece turned into Rome, so the Russian enlightenment turned into the Russian revolution. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

195 " Και να θυμάστε. Ποτέ, σε καμία περίπτωση, να μην απελπίζεστε. Η ελπίδα και η δράση είναι καθήκον μας στη δυστυχία. Η αδράνεια της απόγνωσης ισοδυναμεί με λήθη και παραβίαση του καθήκοντος. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

196 " Я тоже думаю, что России суждено стать первым за существование мира царством социализма. Когда это случится, оно надолго оглушит нас, и, очнувшись, мы уже больше не вернем утраченной памяти. Мы забудем часть прошлого и не будем искать небывалому объяснений. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

197 " Спасение не в верности формам, а в освобождении от них. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

198 " They did not know that the misfortune of having average taste is a great deal worse than the misfortune of having no taste at all. "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

199 " What must one be, to rave year after year with delirious feverishness about nonexistent, long-extinct themes, and to know nothing, to see nothing around one! "

― Boris Pasternak , Doctor Zhivago

200 " 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