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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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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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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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To be a woman is a great adventure To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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The whole wide world is a cathedral I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on 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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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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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