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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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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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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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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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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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I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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 love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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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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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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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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I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish. - Lara, from Doctor Zhivago
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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