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We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.

Boris Pasternak

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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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Eternity
Time
Hostages
Captives

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And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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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 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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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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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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ?
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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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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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