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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
Abashed
Immensely
Astonished
Touched
Grateful
Proud

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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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He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.
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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table A candle burned.
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What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.
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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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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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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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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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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.
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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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To be a woman is a great adventure To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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