Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes

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• 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.
• 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…
• Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give…
• Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
• 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…
• Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
• All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness.
• 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…
• In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
• Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
• He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems…
• 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.
• 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…
• One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
• 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…
• No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet.
• Envy is an insult to oneself.
• Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

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