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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
Boris Pasternak
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Boris Pasternak
Age: 70 †
Born: 1890
Born: February 10
Died: 1960
Died: May 30
Novelist
Pianist
Playwright
Poet
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Translator
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Holiwis
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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Faithfulness
Liberation
Salvation
Forms
Lies
Lying
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Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.
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