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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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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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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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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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During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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I am alone all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.
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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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They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the blaze of passion often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime.
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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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