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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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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.
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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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I am alone all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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