Its a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isnt a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if you cant place him in a category, it means that at least a part of him is what a human being ought to be. He has risen above himself, he has a grain of immortality.
Boris PasternakAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist, Writer
- Nationality: russian
- Born: February 10, 1890
- Died: May 30, 1960
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