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

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Boris Pasternak
Age: 70 †
Born: 1890
Born: February 10
Died: 1960
Died: May 30
Novelist
Pianist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Translator
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Holiwis
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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Literature

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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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The whole wide world is a cathedral I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.
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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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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.
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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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