Deborah Hemens

“You are anxious about whether you will rise from the dead or not, but you rose from the dead when you were born and you didn't notice it.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“The saddest thing of all was that their party represented a deviation from the conditions of the time. It was impossible to imagine that in the houses across the lane people were eating and drinking in the same way at such an hour. Beyond the window lay mute, dark, hungry Moscow. Her food stores were empty, and people had even forgotten to think of such things as game and vodka.

And thus it turned out that the only true life is one that resembles the life around us and drowns in it without leaving a trace, that isolated happiness is not happiness, so that duck and alcohol, when they seem to be the only ones in town, are not alcohol and a duck at all.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago