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Dissident Poet Boris Pasternak on Aloneness and Why We Make Art
Dissident Poet Boris Pasternak on Aloneness and Why We Make Art

“A book is nothing but a cube of hot, smoking conscience.”

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A Cross-Cultural Bridge of Kinship and Mutual Appreciation: The Moving Correspondence of Albert Camus and Boris Pasternak
A Cross-Cultural Bridge of Kinship and Mutual Appreciation: The Moving Correspondence of Albert Camus and Boris Pasternak

“It is false to say that frontiers do not exist. They do exist, temporarily. But at the same time there exists a force of creativity and truth uniting us all, in humility and in pride at the same time.”

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