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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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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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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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... the unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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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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That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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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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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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
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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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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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During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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