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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Boris Pasternak
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Boris Pasternak
Age: 70 †
Born: 1890
Born: February 10
Died: 1960
Died: May 30
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Moscow
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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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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We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.
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Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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