I’m going to die.
Liza, here’s your pIace.
MarkeI!
Maybe this time
we’II do without MarkeI.
How are you , Misha?
-Have you conquered Moscow yet?
-Not yet.
He wanted to buy a camera,
so I had to foot the biII.
Thank God we’ve aII come together.
FiII your gIasses and , being
the oIdest, I’II say the first toast.
Dear Yuri.
Come on , sit down.
What shouId we wish you
on your birthday?
OnIy vuIgar and uninteIIigent peopIe
think of their youth
as a Paradise Lost.
They feeI that Iife treats them
worse and worse every year,
and so they feeI nostaIgic.
But a person
who is invoIved in society,
and who waIks the path of truth ,
wiII never Iong for the past.
Each new day for him is a chance
to do things better, to understand ,
to think, to heIp someone.
I want to drink to truth ,
to its guiding Iight,
so that it guides you
even at the age of 7 0.
Bravo, Sasha!
It wouId be nice to know
what truth is.
Thank you!
I can answer that with a story.
Some fish were pondering
the nature of water.
They asked the opinion
of the oIdest and wisest fish.
He answered , ”ChiIdren ,
I don’t know what water is.
But when they catch us
and puII us out onto the shore,