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Boris Pasternak
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Boris Pasternak
Age: 70 †
Born: 1890
Born: February 10
Died: 1960
Died: May 30
Novelist
Pianist
Playwright
Poet
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Translator
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Holiwis
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Abashed
Immensely
Astonished
Touched
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Proud
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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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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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You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.
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... the unarmed power of naked truth.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss 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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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ?
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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 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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That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take 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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