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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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Moscow
Russian SFSR
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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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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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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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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... the unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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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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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
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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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