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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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Poet
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Holiwis
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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Good
Men
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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table A candle burned.
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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain 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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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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Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ?
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To be a woman is a great adventure To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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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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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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