Boris Pasternak

Russia
10 Feb 1890 // 30 May 1960
Poet / Writer

You in Others

And now listen carefully. You in others - this is your soul. This is what you are. This is what your consciousness has breathed and lived on and enjoyed throughout your life - your soul, your immortality, your life in others. And what now? You have always been in others and you will remain in others. And what does it matter to you if later on that is called your memory? This will be you - the you that enters the future and becomes a part of it.

Boris Pasternak, in 'Doctor Zhivago'
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