Quote by: Boris Pasternak

Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.


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Author Bio


  • NameBoris Pasternak
  • DescriptionRussian writer
  • AliasesBoris Leonidovich Pasternak
  • BornFebruary 10, 1890
  • DiedMay 30, 1960
  • CountryRussian Empire; Soviet Union
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Translator; Novelist
  • WorksDoctor Zhivago
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature