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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
Pianist
Playwright
Poet
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Translator
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Holiwis
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ?
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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
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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 whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
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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 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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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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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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... the unarmed power of naked truth.
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