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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.

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Boris Pasternak
Age: 70 †
Born: 1890
Born: February 10
Died: 1960
Died: May 30
Novelist
Pianist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Translator
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Insanely
Wildly
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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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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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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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The whole wide world is a cathedral I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.
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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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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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