In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being.

~ Boris Pasternak

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But who are we, where do we come fromWhen all those yearsNothing but idle talk is leftAnd we are nowhere in the world?= MEETING =

~ Boris Pasternak

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The poet gives his whole life such a voluntarily steep incline that it is impossible for it to exist in the vertical line of biography where we expect to meet it. It is not to be found under his own name and must be sought under those of others, in the biographical columns of his followers. The more self-contained the individuality from which the life derives, the more collective, without any figurative speaking, is its story.

~ Boris Pasternak

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