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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.
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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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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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Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
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That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
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And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.
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And there, with frightful listing Through emptiness, away Through unknown solar systems Revolves the Milky Way.
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You are eternity's hostage
A captive of time.
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With an awful, dreadful list Towards other galaxies unknown Ponderously turns the Milky Way.
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Snow, snow over the whole land
across all boundaries.
The candle burned on the table,
the candle burned.
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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries, he seems a semi-madman.
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Mother Russia is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop.
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One day Lara went out and did not come back…She died or vanished somewhere, forgotten as a nameless number on a list which was afterwards mislaid.
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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself...
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Like a beast in a pen, I'm cut off
From my friends, freedom, the Sun.
But the hunters are gaining ground;
I've nowhere else to run.
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The main misfortune, the root of all evil to come, was loss of the confidence in the value of one's own opinion. People imagined that it was out of date of follow their own moral sense, that they must all sing in chorus, and live by other people's notions, notions that were crammed down everybody's throat.
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Am I a gangster or a murderer?
Of what crime do I stand
Condemned? I made the whole world weep
At the beauty of my land.
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I am caught like a beast at bay.
Somewhere are people, freedom, light,
But all I hear is the baying of the pack,
There is no way out for me.
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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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If it is so painful to love and to be charged with this electric current, how much more painful must it be to a woman and to be the current, and to inspire love.
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Work seethes in the hands of spring,
That strapping dairymaid.
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In time to come, I tell them, we'll be equal
to any living now. If cripples, then
no matter; we shall just have been run over
by 'New Man' in the wagon of his 'Plan'.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Boris Pasternak
Born:
February 10, 1890
Died:
May 30, 1960
(aged 70)
Bio:
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. In his native Russian, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, is one of the most influential collections ever published in the Russian language.
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