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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

Alexander Pushkin

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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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