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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
Boris Pasternak
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Boris Pasternak
Age: 70 †
Born: 1890
Born: February 10
Died: 1960
Died: May 30
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish. - Lara, from Doctor Zhivago
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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I am alone all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table A candle burned.
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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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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
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A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.
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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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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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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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I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime.
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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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