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Boris Pasternak

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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.


— Boris Pasternak


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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.


— Boris Pasternak


#beauty #boldness #destruction #disease #draws

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.


— Boris Pasternak


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They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.


— Boris Pasternak


#despise #hate #love #much #only

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.


— Boris Pasternak


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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


#establish #ignore #infallibility #men #myth

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.


— Boris Pasternak


#alone #aura #childbirth #every #isolation

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.


— Boris Pasternak


#live #man #prepare

No bad man can be a good poet.


— Boris Pasternak


#bad man #good #man #poet

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.


— Boris Pasternak


#grant #greatest #greatest gift #life #surprise






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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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