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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Holiwis
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Truth
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Unarmed
Naked
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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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I am alone all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.
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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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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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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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That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
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They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ?
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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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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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I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.
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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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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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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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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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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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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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