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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
Boris Pasternak
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Boris Pasternak
Age: 70 †
Born: 1890
Born: February 10
Died: 1960
Died: May 30
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Moscow
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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