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The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.

Andrei Voznesensky

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Andrei Voznesensky
Age: 77 †
Born: 1933
Born: May 12
Died: 2010
Died: June 1
Architect
Lyricist
Painter
Poet
Printmaker
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
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