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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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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