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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

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Boris Pasternak
Age: 70 †
Born: 1890
Born: February 10
Died: 1960
Died: May 30
Novelist
Pianist
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Poet
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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