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Boris Pasternak

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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.


— Boris Pasternak


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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.


— Boris Pasternak


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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.


— Boris Pasternak


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I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.


— Boris Pasternak


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In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.


— Boris Pasternak


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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.


— Boris Pasternak


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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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