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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
Russian SFSR
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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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 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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.
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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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But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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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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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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