“If it is so painful to love and to be charged with this electric current, how much more painful must it be to a woman and to be the current, and to inspire love.”

— Borís Pasternak , book Doctor Zhivago

Source: Doctor Zhivago (1957)

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Russian writer 1890–1960

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