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Juhani Siljo (3 May 1888 – 6 May 1918) was a Finnish poet and translator. Siljo was born as Johan Alarik Sjögren in Oulu. He completed the Oulun Lyseon Lukio upper secondary school in 1907, and started studies in the University of Helsinki at the same year, but never graduated, instead he focused on writing. He wrote poems, essays and translated authors like Novalis, Friedrich Schiller, Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche and Charles Baudelaire. Siljo also worked as an editor in the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat and the periodical Valvoja. From 1915 to 1916 he worked as a library assistant in Jyväskylä.
The nearer a man comes to the ideal he has created for himself in his feelings and imagination, the more painfully does he feel the imperfections in himself, even the smallest, which prevent him from attaining perfection.
My enemy, prosper in the world! You will fall to world fame and success more surely than if I set traps for you.