A woman's love for us increases
The less we love her, sooth to say-
She stoops, she falls, her struggling ceases;
Caught fast, she cannot get away.

Alexander Pushkin

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Topic

Relationship challenges Love

Author

Alexander Pushkin

Source

Eugene Onegin

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

Russian

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Russia Europe

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Original Citation

Pushkin, Alexander. Евгеній Онѣгинъ, романъ въ стихахъ [Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse]. St. Petersburg: Alexandr Smirdin, 1833, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Pushkin, Alexander. Eugene Onegin, translated by James E. Falen. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 4.

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