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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
Boris Pasternak
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Boris Pasternak
Age: 70 †
Born: 1890
Born: February 10
Died: 1960
Died: May 30
Novelist
Pianist
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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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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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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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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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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During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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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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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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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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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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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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We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.
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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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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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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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What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.
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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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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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