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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.

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Boris Pasternak
Age: 70 †
Born: 1890
Born: February 10
Died: 1960
Died: May 30
Novelist
Pianist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Translator
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Holiwis
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Despise
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Hate
Much
Things
Love

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Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!
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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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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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To be a woman is a great adventure To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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 have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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The whole wide world is a cathedral I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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