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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

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Nadya Zelenin and her mother had returned from a performance of Eugene Onegin at the theatre. Going into her room, the girl swiftly threw off her dres...more

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Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy...more

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Ivanov: No, my clever young thing, it's not a question of romance. I say as before God that I will endure everything - depression and mental illness a...more

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Only one who loves can remember so well.

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And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

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But then there's loneliness. However you might philosophise about it, loneliness is a terrible thing, my dear fellow… Although in reality, of course, ...more

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...there’s a great deal which I don’t understandin people. In a human being everything should be beautiful: the face, the clothes, the soul, the thoug...more