Boris Pasternak Quotes


Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept away in the general upheaval and reorganization of the whole of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the bare, shivering human soul, stripped to the last shred, the naked force of the human psyche for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.


Citations

Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago. Translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari, Pantheon Books, 1958, p. 402.

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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.