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No Jewish blood runs among my blood,

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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Be equal to your talent, not your age. / At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
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.
Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.
A show of envy is an insult to oneself.
In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight. It goes with him. . . . Not people die but worlds die in them.
A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.
Life is a rainbow which also includes black.
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There is no Jewish blood in my veins, But I am hated with a scabby hatred By all the anti-Semites, like a Jew. And therefore I am a true Russian.

Babi Yar [1961]

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