Quotes by Boris Pasternak

"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."

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"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them."

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"Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us."

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"Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it."

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"Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed."

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