Boris Pasternak
1890 - 1960
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Biography
Boris Pasternak was a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator, best known for his novel 'Doctor Zhivago,' which he wrote during the tumultuous times of the Russian Revolution and subsequent Civil War. Born in 1890 in Moscow to a prominent artistic family, Pasternak's works often reflected his deep philosophical reflections on human existence, love, nature, and the complex political landscape of his time. Despite facing censorship and persecution, he continued to produce influential works that earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958.
Famous Quotes (5)
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I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.
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Bread of the strong is better without meat, bread of the weak is in needs of it.