Boris Pasternak Quotes

It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.

There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.

'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

There's more to light than the opposite of dark.

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.

It's the frames which make some things important and some things forgotten. It's all only frames from which the content rises.

The same words come from each mouth differently.

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.

The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.