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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
Proud
Abashed
Immensely
Astonished
Touched
Grateful

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Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!
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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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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
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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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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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Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ?
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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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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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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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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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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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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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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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