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Yury Andreyevich Zhivago Quotes
11 of the best book quotes from Yury Andreyevich Zhivago
#1
“It was against the rules to remain indifferent to it.”
author
Boris Pasternak
book
Doctor Zhivago
character
Yury
concepts
rules
indifference
opinions
#2
“It’s not for nothing that you stand at the end of my life ... just as ... at its beginning.”
author
Boris Pasternak
book
Doctor Zhivago
characters
Lara
Yury
concepts
fate
lovers
reasons
#3
“I never turn back halfway, never abandon what I’ve started.”
author
Boris Pasternak
book
Doctor Zhivago
characters
Lara
Yury
concepts
don't give up
self-motivation
perserverance
#4
“The unfree man always idolizes his slavery.”
author
Boris Pasternak
book
Doctor Zhivago
characters
Misha
Yury
concepts
Slavery
idolizes
Communism
#5
“They were all there, all side by side, and some did not recognize each other, while others had never known each other.”
author
Boris Pasternak
book
Doctor Zhivago
characters
Lara
Misha
Yusupka
Yury
concepts
connection
unrecognizable
others
#6
“I used to be in a very revolutionary mood, but now I think that we’ll gain nothing by violence.”
author
Boris Pasternak
book
Doctor Zhivago
character
Yury
concepts
revolutionary
violence
change of heart
#7
“It’s impossible, without its affecting your health, to show yourself day after day contrary to what you feel.”
author
Boris Pasternak
book
Doctor Zhivago
characters
Yury
Misha
concepts
impossible
health
covering up
#8
“Just now I was looking out the window of the train and thinking. What can be higher than peace in the family and work? The rest isn’t in our power.”
author
Boris Pasternak
book
Doctor Zhivago
character
Yury
concepts
peace
family
work
higher power
#9
″[That] was why Yura was so shaken by his mother’s death, because he had been lost in that forest with her and was suddenly left alone in it, without her.”
author
Boris Pasternak
book
Doctor Zhivago
character
Yury
concepts
loss
left alone
losing parents
#10
“The roof over the whole of Russia has been torn off, and we and all the people find ourselves under the open sky.”
author
Boris Pasternak
book
Doctor Zhivago
character
Yury
concepts
Revolution
possibilities
people
#11
“Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness . . . Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with those who don’t love it sufficiently.”
author
Boris Pasternak
book
Doctor Zhivago
characters
Yury
Kolya
concepts
Refuge
faith
truth
solitary
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