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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
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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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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We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
Boris Pasternak
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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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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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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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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