Envy is an insult to oneself.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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  2. You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt

  3. What you can't get is just what suits you. - French Proverb

  4. The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality. - Toni Cade Bambara

  5. The true exercise of freedom is-can-nily and wisely and with grace-to move inside what space confines-and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted. - A. S. Byatt

More Quotes By Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  1. When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.

  2. A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

  3. 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.

  4. They tell me, shaking their heads:" You should be kinder. You are somehow furious". I used to be kind. It didn’t last long.

  5. 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.

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