’Tis not the life of yearning sighs that makes me grieve, For what are life and death? It is the fire That once did fill the whole world with its light And now, retreating into night, sheds bitter tears
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Ne zhizni zhal’s tomitel’nym dykhan’em—/Chto zhizn’ i smert’! A zhal’ togo ognya, /Chto prosiyal nad tselym mirozdan’em/I v noch’idet, i plachet, ukhodya.A. A. Fet.
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Manin, Y.I. Foreword. Theor Math Phys 123, ii (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02551390
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