#boris pasternak

[mournfulroses]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to Boris Pasternak featured in Letters, Summer 1926

[lunamonchtuna]

— Marina Tsvetaeva, in a letter to Boris Pasternak, from A Russian Psyche: The Poetic Mind of Marina Tsvetaeva (via lunamonchtuna)

[terrorignitis]

И я б хотел, чтоб после смерти, Как мы замкнемся и уйдем, Тесней, чем сердце и предсердье, Зарифмовали нас вдвоем.

Boris Pasternak, Beloved

[thoughtkick]

I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.

Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

[wittgensteinsmistrust]

a well-read woman in a disorderly way

Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

[undinesea]

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction; it's part of our physical body, and our souls exist in space and are inside us, like the teeth in the mouth. It can't forever be violated with impunity.

Boris Pasternak, from Words Which Apply to Us As Well As Russia

[arcaneweaving]

“Hekabe” transl. by Anne Carson in Grief Lessons // Arcane S1 E8 “Oil and Water” // Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin // Arcane S2 E 4 “Paint the Town Blue” // The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen // Arcane S1 E7 “The Boy Savior” // Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak // Arcane S2 E9 “The Dirt Under Your Nails”

[perfectquote]

I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.

Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago