Status Updates From Il dottor Živago

The movie was so much better. I loved the idea of the story and the swept away love story, but the writing was just meh at best to me. It was chaotic to follow and skipped time periods without any warning. The author also assumes the reader knows Russian history. I had to do a Russian history overview before reading the book because otherwise I would not have understood much of what was actually happening

"Take Blok’s ‘We, the children of Russia’s terrible years,’ and you’ll see the difference in epochs. When Blok said that, it was to be understood in a metaphorical sense. The children were not children, but the intelligentsia, and the terrors were not terrible, but providential, apocalyptic. But now all that was metaphorical has become literal, and the children are children, and the terrors are terrifying."

"Farewell, my great and dear one, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to throw myself into your cold waves."

saving quotes that make me cry

"They loved each other because everything around them wanted it so: the earth beneath them, the sky over their heads, the clouds and trees. Everything around them was perhaps more pleased by their love than they were themselves. Strangers in the street, the distances opening out during their walks, the rooms they lived or met in."

"The frequency of microscopic cardiac hemorrhages has increased greatly. It’s the disease of our time. I think its causes are of a moral order. A constant, systematic dissembling is required of the vast majority of us. It’s impossible, without its affecting your health, to show yourself day after day contrary to what you feel, to lay yourself out for what you don’t love, to rejoice over what brings you misfortune."