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... the unarmed power of naked truth.
Boris Pasternak
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Boris Pasternak
Age: 70 †
Born: 1890
Born: February 10
Died: 1960
Died: May 30
Novelist
Pianist
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Holiwis
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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Truth
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