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| Zhivago means "the living" in Russian |
“It’s the disease of our time. I think its causes are of a moral order. A constant, systematic dissembling is required of the vast majority of us. It’s impossible, without its affecting your health, to show yourself day after day contrary to what you feel, to lay yourself out for what you don’t love, to rejoice over what brings you misfortune.… Our soul takes up room in space and sits inside us like the teeth in our mouth. It cannot be endlessly violated with impunity.”
... Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator ... a remark in his acclaimed novel Doctor Zhivago prompted undoubtedly by his own serious heart attack suffered at 62, in the midst of writing it.
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