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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.

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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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Nothing
Utterly
Love
Unique
Like
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People
Thoughts
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