Quotes by Vladimir Mayakovsky

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Crap is, of course, always unprincipled; it generates an indifferent attitude towards the subject, avoiding the difficult one.

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Theater is not a mirror that reflects, but a struggle that magnifies.

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A kind word is a master of wonderful wonders.

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The Word is the commander of human power.

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Squeeze a single word for the sake of thousands of tons of verbal ore.

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Poetry is like radium extraction. One gram extracted - one year of work.

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A published nonsense creates the conviction of some that they cannot write worse. These two, writing and being read, arouse the envy of four.

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I love any kind of life!

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I hate any kind of death!

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He's not a man, but a cloud in his pants.

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There is no coat more beautiful than bronzed muscles and fresh skin.

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You are my dearest and closest ones.

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Come to me, people, and those who offended me.

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With nails of words I am nailed to the paper.

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War is one of the greatest blasphemies against man and nature.

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We have blood in our veins, and not water, through the array of weapons we walk, so that, dying, we become ships, lines and other lasting things.

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If the stars light up, doesn't that mean someone needs them?

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Could you play a nocturne on a sewer pipe flute? Because, for you, it is not so important that you are made of bronze, that your heart is a piece of cold iron. At night you want to hide your echo in something soft, feminine.

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Dying in this life is not difficult. Living life is much harder.