Boris Pasternak

"In the face of eternity, all human achievement is equal—equally magnificent and equally insignificant."

"To forgive is not to forget, but to choose a different relationship with the past."

"The greatest discoveries are often made by those who were lost."

"Beauty multiplies when shared, diminishes when hoarded."

"In the space between what we say and what we mean lies the whole of human truth."

"The freedom to create is the freedom that makes all other freedoms possible."

"Happiness is not a destination but a quality of movement toward what we love."

"The greatest legacy we leave is not what we build, but who we become in the building."

"In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it."

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

"The highest things are the hardest things to say, because words diminish them."

"There is no such thing as an ordinary human life, every man contains multitudes."

"Love is not weakness. It is the greatest strength that exists in the human soul."

"I have always thought that the true basis of theology is friendship."

"To be moved one way or another by some example is to have a norm of conduct."

"The soul is always right in holding a grudge against the object that destroys it."

"One should not go to the theater if one wants to commit suicide."

"We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom."

"Life does not become tragic because goals are not reached; only because growth is stopped."

"The whole of life has become a substitute for what it might have been."

"In poetry a rhyme is a repeating echo that returns ownership to the reader."

"History is the memory of mankind, and without it we are destined to repeat our mistakes."

"The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment."

"What is this life if we do not stop to appreciate beauty?"

"The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret."

"Talent is innate, but art is learned through a thousand failures."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"Modesty and discipline are the most valuable of all possessions."

"The same fate that governs the stars governs our lives, yet we are free."

"Every writer has a right to explore the darkness that lives within consciousness."