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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

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Boris Pasternak
Age: 70 †
Born: 1890
Born: February 10
Died: 1960
Died: May 30
Novelist
Pianist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Translator
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Holiwis
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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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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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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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ?
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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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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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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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And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.
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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 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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A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.
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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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