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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
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Translator
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Holiwis
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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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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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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 unarmed power of naked truth.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ?
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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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A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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To be a woman is a great adventure To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.
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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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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
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You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.
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