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Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (/ˈpæstərˌnæk/; Russian: Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к, IPA: [bɐˈrʲis lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ pəstɛrˈnak]) (10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890 – 30 May 1960) was a Soviet Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. In his native Russian, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life (1917), is one of the most influential collections ever published in the Russian language. Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderón de la Barca and Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences.

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About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but it seems to me it´s just the contrary. Often it´s something you paid no attention to at the time -- a vague thought that you didn´t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed -- these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.

Dream, Hours, Life, Night, Strong, Things

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.

Best Effort, Life, Lying, Order, Seemingly, Work

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.

Boldness, Disease, Fall, Life, Path, Roots

I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.

Alone, Cross, Hypocrisy, Life, Simple

If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.

Absorb, Electricity, Inspire, Painful, Woman

It's only in bad novels that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life everything gets mixed up! Don't you think you'd have to be a hopeless nonentity to play only one role all your life, to have only one place in society, always to stand for the same thing?--Ah, there you are!" - Larissa Fyodorovna in Doctor Zhivago.

Camps, Doctors, Real, Thinking, Zhivago

Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept away in the general upheaval and reorganization of the whole of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the bare, shivering human soul, stripped to the last shred, the naked force of the human psyche for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.

Destroyed, Dust, Home, Lonely, Ruined, Stripped

I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.

Enough, Hate, I Hate, Kill

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

Gains, Germinate, Lose, Loss, Seed, Seeds

She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

Earth, Enchantment, Make, Make Sense, Sense, Wild

You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.

Captive, Eternity, Hostage, Mines

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.

Life, Principle, Principles, Renewing, Self, Want

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

Alone, Auras, Isolation, Moments, Same, Woman

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

Astonished, Grateful, Proud, Touched

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

Anxious, Establish, Ignore, Men, Myth

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to confine themselves to a limited field. They overturn the old order in a few hours or days, the whole upheaval takes a few weeks or at most years, but the fanatical spirit that inspired the upheavals is worshiped for decades thereafter, for centuries.

Field, Growing, Kings, Men, Overturn, War

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

Explosion, Planning, Saw, Saws, Wonderful, World

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Gift, Grant, Greatest, Leadership, Life, Morning

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

Art, Extraordinary, Ordinary, People, Words

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

Art, Risk, Sacrifice, Spiritual

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