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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

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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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Faithfulness
Liberation
Salvation
Forms
Lies
Lying

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