"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."
"No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim."
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Source: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1965). “The Poems of Dr. Zhivago”, p.134, Manchester University Press
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