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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
Touched
Grateful
Proud
Abashed
Immensely
Astonished

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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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... the unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
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To be a woman is a great adventure To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish. - Lara, from Doctor Zhivago
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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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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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Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ?
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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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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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They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the blaze of passion often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet.
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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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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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