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"Envy is an insult to oneself."
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"Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride."
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"It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last."
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"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."
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"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."
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"I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy."
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"However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him."
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"Many critics are born of envy."
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"Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all."
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"We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do."
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"As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things."
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"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers."
Poetry
"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."
Politics
"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!"
Art
"Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?"
Politics
"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote."
Poetry
"I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life."
Life
"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."
Blood
"Envy is an insult to oneself."
Envy
"In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies."
Enemy
"Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful."
Woman
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