Pasternak, Boris Filmography

• Doktor Zhivago
  2006, role: writer
• Ne delayte biskvity v plokhom nastroenii
  2003, role: writer
• Doctor Zhivago
  2002, role: writer
• 'Doctor Zhivago': The Making of a Russian Epic
  1995, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Parajanov: The Last Spring
  1992, role: miscellaneous crew
• Pasternak
  1990, role: writer
• Bene! Quattro diversi modi di morire in versi: Majakovskij-Blok-Esènin-Pasternak
  1977, role: writer
• Korol Lir
  1971, role: writer
• Doctor Zhivago
  1965, role: writer
• Gamlet
  1964, role: writer
• Doutor Jivago
  1959, role: writer
• Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in Moscow
  1959, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Boris Pasternak:

"Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life."

"The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman."

"As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world."

"Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light."

"As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings."

"Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John."

"You fall into my arms. / You are the good gift of destruction's path, / When life sickens more than disease / And boldness is the root of beauty- / Which draws us together."

"Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it."

"Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us."

"Man is born to live and not to prepare to live."

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

"You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together."

"Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed."

"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."

"No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim."

"They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise."

"As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth."

"At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone."

"No bad man can be a good poet."

"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup."