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

  Boris Pasternak

  Hate, I Hate, Enough

  "Fictional character: Zhivago". "Doctor Zhivago", www.imdb.com. 1965.

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• We must discover security within ourselves.

  Boris Pasternak

  Anticipation, Security

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• No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

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  Men, Growing, Single Man

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• Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.

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  Mediocrity, Individual, Sole

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• Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.

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  Song, Unique, People

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• No bad man can be a good poet.

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  Men, Poet, Bad Man

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• You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with - at the end of it, you and I are just as stripped and homeless. And you and I are the last remembrance of all that immeasurable greatness which has been created in all the thousands of years between their time and ours, and it is in memory of all that vanished splendour that we live and love and weep and cling to one another.

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  Memories, Greatness, Years

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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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  Writing, Copying, Might

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

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  World, Saws, Planning

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• He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.

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  Life, What Matters, People

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• He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.

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  Way, Natural, Banality

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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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  Strong, Compassion, Feelings

  Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1965). “The Poems of Dr. Zhivago”, p.134, Manchester University Press

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• Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.

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  Farewell, Pride, Saying Goodbye

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• You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.

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  Eternity, Hostage, Mines

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• The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.

  Boris Pasternak

  Echoes, Air, Ears

  1958 When It Clears Up (translated by Lydia Pasternak Slater).

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• A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime.

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  Art, Moving, Reading

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• Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.

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  Order, Hypocrisy, Pharisees

  Doctor Zhivago "Zhivago's Poems: Hamlet" (1958) (translation by Max Hayward and Manya Harari)

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• What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.

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  Atheist, Believe, Men

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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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  Doctors, Dear God, Stomach

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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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  Life, Years, Literature

  Roger Martin du Gard, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Gabriela Mistral (1971). “Roger Martin du Gard: Gabriela Mistral ; Boris Pasternak”

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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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  Fear, Sorcery, Hot

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• 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.

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  Real, Thinking, Doctors

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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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  Mother, Moving, Russia

  Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1965). “The Poems of Dr. Zhivago”, p.137, Manchester University Press

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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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  Life, Simple, Hypocrisy

  Doctor Zhivago "Zhivago's Poems: Hamlet" (1958) (translation by Max Hayward and Manya Harari)

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• He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.

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  Mother, Children, Men

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