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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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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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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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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for 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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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To be a woman is a great adventure To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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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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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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... the unarmed power of naked truth.
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You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.
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A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ?
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