They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator
Quoted in “Farewell in a Poet’s Land,” Life Magazine (1960-06-13)
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On the Communist leadership of the Soviet Union.
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