"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them."
"He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life."
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Source: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (2008). “The Marsh of Gold: Pasternak's Writings on Inspiration and Creation”, p.162, Academic Studies PRess
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