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I am afraid that these memories of mine will not please the uncritical admirers of Kiril Hristov. I will not try to balance the lights and shadows in his image - I will present the facts as they are, that is, as I perceived them, without deliberate seasoning. Memoirs are a specific literary genre - they are neither criticism nor a historical-literary assessment - although they may contain moments of both. In them, your attitude towards the poet is mixed with your impressions of the person - and even above all of the person. You think both about the peculiarities of talent and about the inclinations of the personality, about the traits of the author's character - as he manifests himself in his everyday meetings and relationships with his colleagues and with people in general - and above all, as you felt it. Hence the subjectivism of memoirs. The poet still remains a poet with his human weaknesses (he will lose something of his moral essence, but not his talent). The ancient Greeks knew this well, and they revered their gods, even though they saw human weaknesses in them and created stories about their weaknesses.