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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.

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
Writing
Layers
Spurts
Routine
Dismantled
Incredibly
Insensitivity
Covered
Entrenched
Broken
Deafness
Bits
Accumulated
Difficult
Hardened
Everything
Disgusting
Corroded

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