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Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak
Russian Novelist
Born: Jan 29, 1890
Died: May 30, 1960
Art Life Love Man Truth You
Related authors: Fyodor Dostoevsky Ivan Turgenev Leo Tolstoy Maxim Gorky Mikhail Sholokhov Romain Gary Yevgeny Zamyatin
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. Boris Pasternak
Life Gift Greatest Gift Greatest Surprise Which Us Grant
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. Boris Pasternak
Art Saying People Words Extraordinary About Something Discovering Ordinary Literature Ordinary People
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live. Boris Pasternak
Man Live Born Prepare
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
Truth Men Myth Power Infallibility Anxious Establish Ignore Utmost
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. Boris Pasternak
Love Marriage Love Is Strong Weakness Only Sacrament Contain Anniversary
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world. Boris Pasternak
Wonderful World Saw Would Understood Erupt Wonderful Things Explosion Things
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
Time Darkness Light Will Cruelty Crushed Believe Spirit Spite Step Powers Even Grave
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise. Boris Pasternak
Love You Hate Despise Only Want To Love Ask Much Things
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. Boris Pasternak
Love World Strong Compassion Feeling Victim Our Our Love Strong Feeling Object Seems More Come May Us Across Deep Here
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
Me Honor Will Community Meet Has-Been Given Abstain Voluntary Been Undeserved Prize Refusal Which Meaning Should View Ill Awarded Belong
You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together. Boris Pasternak
Life Good You Together Gift Destruction Path Beauty Fall Draws More Arms Than Disease Which Us Root Boldness
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. Boris Pasternak
Life Work Time Best Day You Remember First Exhausted Energy Starts Back Our One Time Lies Seemingly Delight Come Efforts Just Forgotten Order Stores Therein Brings
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. Boris Pasternak
Alone Woman Isolation Every Though Abandoned She Were Aura Same Childbirth Moment

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