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Boris Pasternak
 
Date of birth: 10 February 1890
Date of death: 30 May 1960
Country Of Origin: Russia
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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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" 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. "

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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. "

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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. "

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

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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. "

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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. "

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" I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. "

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" I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrified himself. "

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" Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed. "

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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. "

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" Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. "

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

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

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