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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.

Boris Pasternak

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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
Love
Insanely
Wildly
Infinitely

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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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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.
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I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish. - Lara, from Doctor Zhivago
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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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Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ?
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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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To be a woman is a great adventure To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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