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(translated from Russian by author & A. Gorodnichy)

The recipe of acting is easy, stern and accurate:
crumple and bend yourself nude in the fire -
burning out hundreds of surfaces
and crystallyzing the essence.

And if, on the verge of burning down,
loosing everything that was your life and value,
you wouldn't vanish in a dope or nirvana
nor tear your veins strained painfully,

Then you'll percieve the hidden reasons
of successes and troubles, gusts and passions,
and get the right to change your disguises
and to be called "an artist"

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