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Boris Pasternak Quote: “Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great.”

151. “Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great.”

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Boris Pasternak Quote: “But it turns out that those who inspired the revolution aren’t at home in anything except change and turmoil, they aren’t happy with anything that’s on less than a world scale. For them transitional periods, worlds in the making, are an end in themselves. They aren’t trained for anything else, they don’t know anything except that.”

152. “But it turns out that those who inspired the revolution aren’t at home in anything except change and turmoil, they aren’t happy with anything that’s on less than a world scale. For them transitional periods, worlds in the making, are an end in themselves. They aren’t trained for anything else, they don’t know anything except that.”

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Boris Pasternak Quote: “She has more names than petticoats.”

153. “She has more names than petticoats.”

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Boris Pasternak Quote: “Man is a wolf to man.”

154. “Man is a wolf to man.”

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Boris Pasternak Quote: “Could it be that for a moment of too-broad sympathy he had enslaved himself forever?”

155. “Could it be that for a moment of too-broad sympathy he had enslaved himself forever?”

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Boris Pasternak Quote: “Contemporary trends of thought have imagined art to be a fountain, whereas it is a sponge. They have decided that art ought to gush forth, whereas it should absorb and become saturated. They think it can be broken down into means of depiction, whereas it is composed of organs of perception. Its proper task is to be always among the spectators and to look more purely, receptively and faithfully than all others.”

156. “Contemporary trends of thought have imagined art to be a fountain, whereas it is a sponge. They have decided that art ought to gush forth, whereas it should absorb and become saturated. They think it can be broken down into means of depiction, whereas it is composed of organs of perception. Its proper task is to be always among the spectators and to look more purely, receptively and faithfully than all others.”

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Boris Pasternak Quote: “Children are unconstrainedly sincere and not ashamed of the truth, while we, from fear of seeming backward, are ready to betray what’s most dear, to praise the repulsive, and to say yes to the incomprehensible.”

157. “Children are unconstrainedly sincere and not ashamed of the truth, while we, from fear of seeming backward, are ready to betray what’s most dear, to praise the repulsive, and to say yes to the incomprehensible.”

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Boris Pasternak Quote: “You and I are like Adam and Eve, the first human beings, who had nothing to cover themselves with when the world began, and we are now just as unclothed and homeless at its end.”

158. “You and I are like Adam and Eve, the first human beings, who had nothing to cover themselves with when the world began, and we are now just as unclothed and homeless at its end.”

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Boris Pasternak Quote: “For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or, if this were not within her power, to give birth out of love for life to successors who would do it in her place.”

159. “For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or, if this were not within her power, to give birth out of love for life to successors who would do it in her place.”

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Boris Pasternak Quote: “The forest does not change its place, we cannot lie in wait for it and catch it in the act of change. Whenever we look at it, it seems to be motionless. And such also is the immobility to our eyes of the eternally growing, ceaselessly changing history, the life of society moving invisibly in its incessant transformations.”

160. “The forest does not change its place, we cannot lie in wait for it and catch it in the act of change. Whenever we look at it, it seems to be motionless. And such also is the immobility to our eyes of the eternally growing, ceaselessly changing history, the life of society moving invisibly in its incessant transformations.”

— Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak Quote: “They had become too conceited to be capable of normal human feelings.”

161. “They had become too conceited to be capable of normal human feelings.”

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Boris Pasternak Quote: “What must one be, to rave year after year with delirious feverishness about nonexistent, long-extinct themes, and to know nothing, to see nothing around one!”

162. “What must one be, to rave year after year with delirious feverishness about nonexistent, long-extinct themes, and to know nothing, to see nothing around one!”

— Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak Quote: “You wouldn’t believe what spite and superstition there is in the world.”

163. “You wouldn’t believe what spite and superstition there is in the world.”

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Boris Pasternak Quote: “I should say the summit of contemporary university knowledge in two fields, mathematics and the humanities. That’s no joke!”

164. “I should say the summit of contemporary university knowledge in two fields, mathematics and the humanities. That’s no joke!”

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Boris Pasternak Quote: “All these twelve years of secondary school and university, Yura had studied classics and religion, legends and poets, the sciences of the past and of nature, as if it were all the family chronicle of his own house, his own genealogy.”

165. “All these twelve years of secondary school and university, Yura had studied classics and religion, legends and poets, the sciences of the past and of nature, as if it were all the family chronicle of his own house, his own genealogy.”

— Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak Quote: “Um homem a ferros tende sempre a idealizar a sua escravatura.”

166. “Um homem a ferros tende sempre a idealizar a sua escravatura.”

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Boris Pasternak Quote: “Besides, he had more serious worries. He had suspected for some time that he suffered from an incurable disease.”

167. “Besides, he had more serious worries. He had suspected for some time that he suffered from an incurable disease.”

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Boris Pasternak Quote: “It has already been so several times in history. What was conceived as ideal and lofty became coarse and material. So Greece turned into Rome, so the Russian enlightenment turned into the Russian revolution.”

168. “It has already been so several times in history. What was conceived as ideal and lofty became coarse and material. So Greece turned into Rome, so the Russian enlightenment turned into the Russian revolution.”

— Boris Pasternak

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