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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890 – 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pasternak’s first book of poems, My Sister, Life , was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language. Pasternak’s translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderón de la Barca and Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences. Pasternak is the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel that takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Second World War. Doctor Zhivago was rejected for publication in the USSR, but the manuscript was smuggled to Italy for publication. Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, an event that enraged the Communist Party of the Soviet Union which forced him to decline the prize, though his descendants were able to accept it in his name in 1988. Doctor Zhivago has been part of the main Russian school curriculum since 2003
“I don’t think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.”
“About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but it seems to me it´s just the contrary. Often it´s something you paid no attention to at the time – a vague thought that you didn´t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed – these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.”
“To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.”
“I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.”
“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.”
“And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
“Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.”
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- - - - - - -“About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but it seems to me it´s just the contrary. Often it´s something you paid no attention to at the time – a vague thought that you didn´t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed – these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.”
“To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.”
“I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.”
“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.”
“And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
“Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.”