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Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak

Russian writer

Lived from: 1890 - 1960

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagRussia

Born: 10 february 1890 Died: 30 may 1960

  • 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.
  • 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.

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  • If it is so painful to love and to be charged with this electric current, how much more painful must it be to a woman and to be the current, and to inspire love.
    Doctor Zhivago (1957)
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  • Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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  • Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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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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  • They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
    On Soviet bureaucrats, in LIFE magazine (13 June 1960)
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