Alexander Pushkin quote — “And once more given to inaction, Empty in spirit and alone, He settled…”

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And once more given to inaction, Empty in spirit and alone, He settled down — to the distraction Of making other minds his own; Collecting books, he stacked a shelfful, Read, read, not even one was helpful: Here, there was dullness, there pretence; This one lacked conscience, that one sense; All were by different shackles fettered; And, past times having lost their hold, The new still raved about the old. Like women, books he now deserted, And mourning taffeta he drew Across the bookshelf’s dusty crew.

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