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To be a woman is a great adventure To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
Boris Pasternak
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Boris Pasternak
Age: 70 †
Born: 1890
Born: February 10
Died: 1960
Died: May 30
Novelist
Pianist
Playwright
Poet
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Holiwis
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.
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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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.
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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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We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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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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