Boris Pasternak Quotes


No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.


Citations

Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago. Translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari, Pantheon Books, 1958.

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Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak
  • Born: February 10, 1890
  • Died: May 30, 1960
  • Nationality: Russian
  • Profession: Poet, Writer

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language. Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderón de la Barca and Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences.