Friendship

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Friendship

 

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

 

 

 

 

What's friendship? The hangover's faction,
The gratis talk of outrage,
Exchange by vanity, inaction,
Or bitter shame of patronage.

 

Author's Notes/Comments: 

1799-1837

The sad this is that you have to be familiar with Russian of that century to trully appreciate his writing in its native form.

There must be a difference to think and read and feel in a particular language.

#lostintranslation

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