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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
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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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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I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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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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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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... the unarmed power of naked truth.
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To be a woman is a great adventure To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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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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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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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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