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Boris Leonidovitch Pasternak , né le 10 février 1890 à Moscou et mort le 30 mai 1960 à Peredelkino, près de Moscou, est un poète, traducteur et romancier russe, lauréat du prix Nobel de littérature en 1958.



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✵ 10. février 1890 – 30. mai 1960
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Boris Pasternak: 40 citations0 J'aime

Boris Pasternak: Citations en anglais

“Am I a gangster or a murderer?
Of what crime do I stand
Condemned? I made the whole world weep
At the beauty of my land.”

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Selected Poems (1983), Nobel Prize

“What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.”

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As quoted in Bridges to Infinity : The Human Side of Mathematics (1983) by Michael Guillen

“Like a beast in a pen, I’m cut off
From my friends, freedom, the Sun.
But the hunters are gaining ground;
I’ve nowhere else to run.”

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Selected Poems (1983), Nobel Prize

“Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one’s stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.”

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As quoted in The New York Times (1 January 1978)

“A candle burned on the table, a candle burned … he whispered to himself — the beginning of something confused, formless; he hoped that it would take shape of itself. But nothing more came to him.”

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Borís Pasternak livre Doctor Zhivago

Source: Doctor Zhivago (1957), Ch. 3 section 10

“They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.”

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On Soviet bureaucrats, in LIFE magazine (13 June 1960)

“Snow, snow over the whole land
across all boundaries.
The candle burned on the table,
the candle burned.”

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Borís Pasternak livre Doctor Zhivago

As translated by Richard McKane (1985)
Doctor Zhivago (1957)

“Even so, one step from my grave,
I believe that cruelty, spite,
The powers of darkness will in time
Be crushed by the spirit of light.”

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Selected Poems (1983), Nobel Prize

“It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.”

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Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series (1963) edited by George Plimpton.

“The main misfortune, the root of all evil to come, was loss of the confidence in the value of one's own opinion. People imagined that it was out of date of follow their own moral sense, that they must all sing in chorus, and live by other people's notions, notions that were crammed down everybody's throat.”

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Borís Pasternak livre Doctor Zhivago

As quoted in "Boris Pasternak" in I.F. Stone's Weekly (3 November 1958), § "Words Which Apply to Us As Well As Russia"; later in The Best of I.F. Stone (2006), p. 43
Doctor Zhivago (1957)

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