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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.

No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet.

All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness.

When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

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

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

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.

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

Who never knew the price of happiness will not be happy.

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

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

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

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

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

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

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

In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them.

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

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

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.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

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.