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“To comprehend / all your perfections with one’s soul; / to melt in agonies before you, / grow pale and waste away… that’s bliss!”

“‘I’ll perish,’ Tanya says, / ‘but perishing from him is lovely.’”

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

“‘I am in love,’ whispered anew / to the old crone with sorrow she. / ‘Friend of my heart, you are not well.’ / ‘Leave me. I am in love.’”

“I liked his traits, / to dreams the involuntary addiction, / nonimitative oddity, / and sharp, chilled mind; / I was embittered, he was sullen; / the play of passions we knew both;”

“Knowing your ancient affection for the pranks or my outcast Muse, I was about to send you several stanzas of my Onegin, but was too lazy to do so. I do not know if they will let my poor Onegin into the Heavenly Kingdom of Publication; in any case I will try.”

“Anyway, I am ready to hang myself if necessary.”

So unbelievably excited for this. Man I wish I spoke Russian