Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Wikipedia Summary for Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Aleksándrovich Yevtushenko (Russian: Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Евтуше́нко; 18 July 1933 – 1 April 2017) was a Soviet and Russian poet. He was also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor and director of several films.

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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 avoiding responsibility. You blame the problems in your country on someone else, on some group.

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

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Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

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

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He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory ... it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.

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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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Give me a mystery -- just a plain and simple one -- a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery -- just one!

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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.

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

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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

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

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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.