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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
Boris Pasternak
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Boris Pasternak
Age: 70 †
Born: 1890
Born: February 10
Died: 1960
Died: May 30
Novelist
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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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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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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I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the birch on the wall as if it were a woman's scarf.
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And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.
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