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... the unarmed power of naked truth.

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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
Naked
Truth
Power
Unarmed

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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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