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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Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

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Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.

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One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

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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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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin

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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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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

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Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

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