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The hell with it. Who never knew
the price of happiness will not be happy.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko Lies (1952)

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In any man who dies there dies with him,
his first snow and kiss and fight.

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

Time has a way of demonstrating
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