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Boris Pasternak

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If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.


— Boris Pasternak


#inspirational

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.


— Boris Pasternak


#men

He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these benalities


— Boris Pasternak


#nature

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.


— Boris Pasternak


#inspirational #life-and-death #art

There shall be no more death, Because we have already seen all that, Its old and we are tired of it, And now we need something new, And this new thing is Eternal Life


— Boris Pasternak


#fearless #harmlessness #inspirational #motivational #death

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.


— Boris Pasternak


#life

Life is not as easy as croosing a field


— Boris Pasternak


#life

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.


— Boris Pasternak


#doctor #fellow #forbidden #me #metaphysics

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.


— Boris Pasternak


#beast #centuries #cudgel #irresistible #man

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.


— Boris Pasternak


#contain #love #love is #marriage #only






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The leadership of the Union travelled to Peredelkino and severely threatened Pasternak who refused to sign the statement and returning to his dacha. Censors also regarded some passages as anti-Soviet especially the novel's criticisms[citation needed] of Stalinism Collectivisation the Great Purge and the Gulag. Pasternak aspired first to be a musician.

Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature the following year an event which both humiliated and enraged the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. S. In his native Russia Pasternak's anthology My Sister Life is one of the most influential collections ever publiBoris Pasternakd in the Russian language.

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