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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

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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
Extraordinary
Artist
Made
Discoveries
Overwhelmed
Discovery

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They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the blaze of passion often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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