Friday, February 24, 2012, 12:47 AM //
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"Everything had changed suddenly - the tone, the moral climate;
you didn't know what to think, whom to listen to. As if all your
life you had been led by the hand like a small child and suddenly
you were on your own, you had to learn to walk by yourself.
There was no one around, neither family nor people whose
judgement you respected. At such a time you felt the need of
committing yourself to something absolute - life or truth or
beauty - of being ruled by it in place of the man-made rules that
had been discarded. You needed to surrender to some such
ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had
ever done in the old familiar, peaceful days, in the old life that
was now abolished and gone for good."
- Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak