They don't ask much of you. They only wa... | Boris Pasternak

Want Love

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

- Boris Pasternak

Other quotes by Boris Pasternak

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

- Boris Pasternak

Man

No bad man can be a good poet.

- Boris Pasternak

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

- Boris Pasternak

Community Will

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

Words Art People

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

- Boris Pasternak

How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

- Boris Pasternak

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