#boris paternak

[the-lost-lamb]

Razdražljiva a tako tiha, sva si od vatre koja gori.

Zašto li tugom mutiš oči?

[verrader-is-dutch-for-traitor]

I knew two lovers who lived in Petrograd during the Revolution and did not notice it.

Boris Pasternac

[tail-feathers]

Seest thou, the passing of the ages is like a parable And in its passing it may burst to flame. In the name, then, of its awesome majesty I shall, in voluntary torments, descend into my grave.

I shall descend into my grave. And on the third day rise again. And, even as rafts float down a river, So shall the centuries drift, trailing like a caravan, Coming for judgment, out of the dark, to me.

- Boris Paternak, last stanzas in Garden of Gethsemane

[anawkwardkindofgorgeous]

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

Boris Pasternak (Doctor Zhivago)