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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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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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Thought
Everything
Take
Heart
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Lara

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