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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He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
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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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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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We stopped the war in Afghanistan. We abolished censorship. We abolished the special commissions that were checking on Russian citizens going abroad. I am very happy that in history my name will be connected to this period.
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