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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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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
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Childbirth
Isolation
Abandoned
Alone
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