The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.

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Boris Pasternak was a 19th-century Russian and soviet writer. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, and literary translator. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Health — Well-being of mind and body, and the pursuit of vitality

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