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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
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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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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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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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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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.
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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table A candle burned.
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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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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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