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It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if you can´t place him in a category, it means that at least a part of him is what a human being ought to be. He has risen above himself, he has a grain of immortality.

Boris Pasternak
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Boris Pasternak's Popular Quotes

An unshared happiness is not happiness.

- Boris Pasternak

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

- Boris Pasternak

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

- Boris Pasternak

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

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

- Boris Pasternak

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

- Boris Pasternak

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

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

- Boris Pasternak

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

- Boris Pasternak
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