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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.

Boris Pasternak

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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
Cross
Crosses
Field
Fields
Alone
Drowns
Simple
Pharisees
Live
Hypocrisy
Life
Simplicity

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