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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
Irretrievable
Slipped
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.
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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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You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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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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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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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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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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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.
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