...of the greatest writers of the 20th century, Boris Pasternak, in the novel "Dr. Zhivago." He writes: "I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could...whip, not the prophet who sacrificed himself. But this is just the point — what has for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel, but...

...of the greatest writers of the 20th century, Boris Pasternak, in the novel "Dr. Zhivago." He writes: "I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could...whip, not the prophet who sacrificed himself. But this is just the point — what has for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel, but...

...of the greatest writers of the 20th century, Boris Pasternak, in the novel Dr. Zhivago. He writes, "I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could...would be the lion tamer in the circus with his whip, nol the prophet who sacrificed himself. But this is jusl (he point — what has for centuries raised...

...the greatest writers of the twentieth century, Boris Pasternak, in the novel Dr. Zhivago. He writes, "I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could...whip, not the prophet who sacrificed himself. But this is just the point — what has for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel, but...

...without the other becomes a dead letter. " J. Edgar Hoover (contemporary) "I think that if the beast in man could be held down by threats — any kind...whip, not the prophet who sacrificed himself. But don 't you see this is just the point — what for centuries raised man above the beast is not the...

...kitten: 'Always purr when you're pleased.' 'My "favourite wisdom", learnt from my father many years ago.' If the beast who sleeps in man could be held down...- then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion-tamer in the circus with his whip, not the self-sacrificing preacher. But don't you see, this...

...circus horse describing how it broke itself in. Let me tell you what I think. I think that if the beast in man could be held down by threats — any kind...you see; this is just the point- — what has for ages raised man above his Prehistoric level of ignorance is not the cudgel but an inward music. The...

...and gave us insight into it in his great novel Doctor Zhivago: Wait, let me tell you what I think. I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could...threats — any kind of threat, whether of jail or retribution after death — then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer in the circus...

...as Pasternak shows here, in the voice of one of his characters, the philosopher Nikolai Vendenyapin: "I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could...by threats - any kind of threat, whether of jail or retribution after death - then the highest emblem of humanity would be the liontamer with his whip,...