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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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Boris Pasternak
Age: 70 †
Born: 1890
Born: February 10
Died: 1960
Died: May 30
Novelist
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Playwright
Poet
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Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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