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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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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
Sufficiently
Solitary
Seek
Break
Truth
Love

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