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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.
Boris Pasternak
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Boris Pasternak
Age: 70 †
Born: 1890
Born: February 10
Died: 1960
Died: May 30
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Moscow
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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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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That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
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