Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life. Boris Pasternak More Quotes by Boris Pasternak More Quotes From Boris Pasternak It's only in bad novels that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life everything gets mixed up! Don't you think you'd have to be a hopeless nonentity to play only one role all your life, to have only one place in society, always to stand for the same thing?--Ah, there you are!" - Larissa Fyodorovna in Doctor Zhivago. Boris Pasternak doctors real thinking I 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 Pasternak freedom light people She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments. Boris Pasternak enchantment make-sense earth We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity. Boris Pasternak hostage all-time eternity You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine. Boris Pasternak hostage mines eternity In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will. Boris Pasternak view me community honor Man is born to live and not to prepare to live. Boris Pasternak brainy live man born Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light. Boris Pasternak light darkness time believe
