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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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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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Life
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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 love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.
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... the unarmed power of naked truth.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the birch on the wall as if it were a woman's scarf.
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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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