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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
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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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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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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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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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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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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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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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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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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We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.
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