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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Age: 83 †
Born: 1933
Born: July 18
Died: 2017
Died: April 1
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When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
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He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.
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Life is a rainbow which also includes black.
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Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
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Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.
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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.
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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
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Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.
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There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.
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One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
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Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
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In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
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When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
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Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an artificial way of avoiding responsibility. You blame the problems in your country on someone else, on some group.
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Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
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No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.
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Envy is an insult to oneself.
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