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

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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
Hostages
Captives
Hostage
Eternity
Time

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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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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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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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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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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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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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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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