The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isnt just a fiction, its part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It cant be forever violated with impunity.

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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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  • Soul — The inner self, consciousness, and spiritual essence
  • Truth — Meditations on honesty, authenticity, and the search for truth

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