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They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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
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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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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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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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