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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

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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
Immensely
Astonished
Touched
Grateful
Proud
Abashed

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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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I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.
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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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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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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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