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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Holiwis
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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Eternity
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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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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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During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the birch on the wall as if it were a woman's scarf.
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Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.
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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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But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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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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