Boris Pasternak

"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music."

"Art has two constant, two witnesses: the silence and the beauty."

"Man is born to live, not to prepare for life."

"The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning."

"There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear."

"In any life, of any depth at all, there are sorrows which cannot be overcome or forgotten."

"What makes all doctrines about the future meaningless and base is that they suppose that something takes precedence over man."

"One more thing: never think you're not good enough yourself. A man should believe that he is not the last one."

"The most important thing is not to stop asking questions."

"Love is not weakness. It is the greatest strength."

"I could write a thousand songs for you in the blink of an eye."

"Winter doesn't last forever and neither do our darkest moments."

"The task of art is not to reproduce the visible world but to create another world."

"There are no ordinary moments; each one contains eternity."

"Beauty in nature is not something to be collected and owned, but something to be experienced."

"The most distinctive mark of thinking is reflection."

"To love someone means to accept them as they are."

"Freedom of speech is the foundation of all other freedoms."

"In her presence, I found the deepest conversation my soul ever had."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"Genius is not born; it is created through suffering and struggle."

"Change is the only constant in the universe."

"Music is the language of the soul."

"Patience is the virtue of the strong."

"In the middle of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."

"The nature of man is to resist the unbearable."

"Do not live for your reputation, live for your conscience."

"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth."

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

"The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person."