11 February: Boris Pasternak quotes

This date in 1890 saw the birth of Boris Pasternak, the Russian author. Wrote Dr. Zhivago. 10 quotes from him:

1. Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
2. Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.
3. I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
4. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
5. How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
6. Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
7. When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
8. As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
9. And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
10. An unshared happiness is not happiness.

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During a battle with supervillains, a horrific accident leaves the Warner family with no option but to believe their youngest daughter, Jessica, is dead. It doesn't occur to them that the bad guys could, or would, save her.

Jessica wakes up with no memory of who she is or how she came to be on a space station with two bionic legs, a bionic arm and a bionic eye. She is told her family abandoned her and is sent back to Earth with a mission - to kill them. While Jessica wants to kill her family, along with the twin boys who once rejected her, she knows what the Alliance of Supervillains are asking her to do is a suicide mission. She decides to get her revenge in her own way.

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Jessica finds herself having to re-think her decisions in light of what she now learns about her family, the Alliance, the twins, and herself. It would appear the Alliance have left her with an unwanted and permanent reminder of her time with them. Or have they?

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