Ordinarily, people are anxious to test their theories in practice, to learn from experience, but those who wield power are so anxious to establish th… - Boris Pasternak

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Ordinarily, people are anxious to test their theories in practice, to learn from experience, but those who wield power are so anxious to establish the myth of their own infallibility that they turn back on truth as squarely as they can. Politics mean nothing to me. I don't like people who are indifferent to the truth.

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About Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak [Борис Леонидович Пастернак] (10 February 1890 – 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet and writer famous for his 1957 novel Doctor Zhivago. His first book of poems, My Sister, Life (1917), is one of the most influential collections ever published in the Russian language. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, an event which enraged the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which forced him to decline the prize, though his descendants were later to accept it in his name in 1988.

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Native Name: Борис Леонидович Пастернак
Alternative Names: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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От всичко руско сега най-много обичам руската детска наивност на Пушкин и Чехов, тяхното свенливо чуждеене от такива гръмки неща като крайните цели на човечеството и собственото спасение. И те са наясно по всички подобни въпроси, но къде ти такива нескромности — не е за тях работа и не им приляга! Гогол, Толстой, Достоевски се готвят за смъртта, безпокоят се, дирят смисъла, теглят чертата — а тези докрая се отвличат по текущите частни въпроси на артистичното призвание, покрай тяхното редуване неусетно изживяват живота си пак като лична, никого незасягаща частна работа и сега този частен въпрос се оказва общо дело и подобно на откъсната от дървото зелена ябълка доузрява в приемствеността и се изпълва с все повече сладост и смисъл.

No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.

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