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When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart, / when he himself, among the sinners, / is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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They tell me, shaking their heads:" You should be kinder. You are somehow furious". I used to be kind. It didn’t last long.Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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No one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me with an indifferent glance, lightly passing, and commit the murder of beauty.Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Time has a way of demonstrating .. . the most stubborn are the most intelligent.Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Envy is an insult to oneself.Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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A show of envy is an insult to oneself.Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.Yevgeny Yevtushenko