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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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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

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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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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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I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

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A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

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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