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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
Boris Pasternak
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Boris Pasternak
Age: 70 †
Born: 1890
Born: February 10
Died: 1960
Died: May 30
Novelist
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Holiwis
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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... the unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.
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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.
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