Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
Source: Doctor Zhivago, translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari, Pantheon 58
-- Boris Pasternak, (Feb 10 1890-1960), Russian novelist, poet; His novel Doctor Zhivago helped win him the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1958 but aroused so much opposition at home that he declined the honor.