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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

~Boris Pasternak

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

~Boris Pasternak

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

~Boris Pasternak

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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

~Boris Pasternak

Topics: Astonished Grateful Immensely Proud Touched

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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

~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

Topics: Anxious Establish Ignore Men Myth Power Truth Utmost

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

~Boris Pasternak

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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.

~Boris Pasternak

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Novelist

Born: February 10th, 1890

Died: May 30th, 1960

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