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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Life itself, the phenomenon of life, the gift of life, is so breathtakingly serious!
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We live in days to come, I tell them firmly,
And share one lot in common now. If crippled,
No matter! Stay. We are in fact run over
By the New Man in the wagon of his Plan.
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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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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 People imagined that it was out of date of follow their own moral sense, that they must all sing in chorus, and live by other people's notions, notions that were crammed down everybody's throat.
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During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist... literature had stopped.
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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.
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I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.
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What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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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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For I've read in many a novel that, unless they've souls that grovel, Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.
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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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