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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
Approximate author period: c. 1925 AD · modern
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- Boris Pasternak
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- Approximate author period: c. 1925 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1890 to 1960; Wikidata Q41223, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41223 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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