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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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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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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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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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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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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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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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I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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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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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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