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The clock of doom had struck as fated;
the poet, without a sound,
let fall his pistol on the ground.

— Aleksandr Pushkin Eugene Onegin (1823)

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Why rave ye, babblers, so -- ye lords of popular wonder?

To the Slanderers of Russia (1831)

The less we love a woman the easier 'tis to be liked by her, and thus more surely we undo her amid seductive toils.

A man who's active and incisive
can yet keep nail-care much in mind:
why fight what's known to be decisive?
custom is despot of mankind.

Eugene Onegin (1823)

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

Always contented with his life,
and with his dinner, and his wife.

Eugene Onegin (1823)

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