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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
Russian SFSR
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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... the unarmed power of naked truth.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.
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To be a woman is a great adventure To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the birch on the wall as if it were a woman's scarf.
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You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.
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