"Man is born to live, not to prepare for life."

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Source : Doctor Zhivago ch. 9 (1958) (translation by Max Hayward and Manya Harari)

Boris Pasternak

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“If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.”
“Make love your weapon to overcome any evil”
“I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.”
“I would prefer to let the president make the decisions that the president needs to make.”
“There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can't have - at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.”
“Pleased be you, my Lord, with all your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, who is the day and through whom you give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendours and bears likeness of you, Most High One.”
“When corruption is king, there is no accountability of leadership and no trust in authority. Society devolves to the basic units of family and self, to the basic instincts of getting what you can when you can, because you don't believe anything better will ever come along. And when the only horizon is tomorrow, how can you care about the kind of nation you are building for your children and your grandchildren? How can you call on your government to address what ails society and build stronger institutions?”
“What holy cities are to nomadic tribes â€” a symbol of race and a bond of union â€” great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.”

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