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I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

Alexander Pushkin

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Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
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In this, our age of infamy Man’s choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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