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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Grateful
Proud
Abashed
Immensely
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Touched
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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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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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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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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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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.
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A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime.
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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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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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... the unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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