<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=352728" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>It is not seemly to be famous...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is not seemly to be famous:<br>Celebrity does not exalt;<br>There is no need to hoard your writings<br>And to preserve them in a vault.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To give your all-this is creation,<br>And not-to deafen and eclipse.<br>How shameful, when you have no meaning,<br>To be on everybody's lips!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Try not to live as a pretender,<br>But so to manage your affairs<br>That you are loved by wide expanses,<br>And hear the call of future years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leave blanks in life, not in your papers,<br>And do not ever hesitate<br>To pencil out whole chunks, whole chapters<br>Of your existence, of your fate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Into obscurity retiring<br>Try your development to hide,<br>As autumn mist on early mornings<br>Conceals the dreaming countryside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Another, step by step, will follow<br>The living imprint of your feet;<br>But you yourself must not distinguish<br>Your victory from your defeat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And never for a single moment<br>Betray your credo or pretend,<br>But be alive-this only matters-<br>Alive and burning to the end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Boris+Pasternak">Boris Pasternak</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=352728" data-title="It is not seemly to be famous... de Boris Pasternak" data-description="It is not seemly to be famous: Celebrity does not exalt; There is no need to hoard your writings And to preserve them in a vault. To give your all-this is creation, And not-to deafen and eclipse. How shameful, when you have no meaning, To be on e..."></div> </div> </div>

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