The less we love a woman, the more easily we please her.
Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is universally recognized as the founder of modern Russian literature and Russia's greatest poet. His verse novel 'Eugene Onegin,' the drama 'Boris Godunov,' and hundreds of lyric poems established the Russian literary language and set the standard against which all subsequent Russian writers measured themselves.
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