“You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.”
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Roman om en mand og hans skæbne, hans kærlighedsoplevelser, sejre og nederlag i Rusland i tiden 1900-1930
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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“You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.”
“And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.”
“The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, you grovel...”
“Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump...”