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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
Pianist
Playwright
Poet
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Translator
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Holiwis
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take 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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.
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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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
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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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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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The whole wide world is a cathedral I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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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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You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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