How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
He had had his right arm and left leg chopped off. It was inconceivable how, with his remaining arm and leg, the wretch had managed to crawl to the camp. (12.8.4)
We've all heard more than once about the brutality of war. But this brutality is shoved in our faces when we're forced to listen to Pasternak describe a guy who has had one leg and one arm chopped off by an enemy army. To make things worse, the guy has had to crawl several miles back to his camp in order to deliver a message of warning to his army. In this case, we truly catch a glimpse of how insane people can get during times of violent conflict.
Quote #5
Once he imagined human voices somewhere quite near, and he lost heart, deciding that this was the beginning of madness. With tears of pity for himself, he murmured against heaven in a voiceless whisper for having turned away from him and abandoned him. (13.9.7)
When Zhivago is lying in bed with a brutal fever, he begins to think that he is falling into madness, which is one of the last stages he'll pass through before dying. In his madness, he curses heaven for abandoning him the way it has. But as we find out later, Zhivago totally gets over his illness and wakes up in the arms of his lover, Lara. Fate seems to work on its own terms.
Quote #6
"I'll tell you. If Strelnikov became Pashenka Antipov again. If he stopped his madness and rebellion […] If somewhere far away, at the edge of the world, the window of our house miraculously lit up […] I think I would crawl there on my knees. (13.14.2)
Lara realizes that her husband Pasha has gone mad and turned into a warmongering murderer. But at the same time, she holds out hope that one day he'll regain his sanity. And if that day ever comes, she swears that she'll go running back to him, because she loves him that much. It's kind of weird, though, that she tells this to Zhivago while they're living together as husband and wife.