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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
Poet
Good
Men

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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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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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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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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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Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ?
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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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I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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